Have you ever had the experience where you give greater devotion to the practice of prayer, only to find yourself becoming more impatient, irritable, and uncharitable? Or, when you tried to live for God alone, in all compartments of your life, only to find yourself more riddled with sin than ever before?
Well, don’t worry. Such godly practices have not caused this decent into ungodliness. You are simply seeing yourself as you truly are.
You’re welcome.
We should always hate sin, but never fear it. To fear sin is to allow it to have an influence upon our lives that denies the realities of propitiation and atonement. We begin to develop a hatred for sin only when we recognise what was required to redeem us, and why it was required.
If we find ourselves at ease with sin, or complacent in the face of it, there will probably be something lacking in our understanding of the purpose, necessity and consequencies of the Cross. Or, we just don’t believe what we understand.
