What you just described fits me to a T. I would suspect most Christians are there too. I also expected to have more victory over sin too, but maybe I just get a deeper understanding of what Jeremiah 17:9 really means. The heart is deceitful above all and desperately wicked. There is no hope whatsoever, for the human heart. The only thing that will work, is for God to put a new heart in us. We have no power to fix our hearts, only God can do it, not because we follow some religious doctrines. He just gives us a whole new nature. Later.
God isn’t out to reform but to regenerate.
You can’t reform something dead. You have to give it new life then it truly is a new creation.
Wow!
Another Great Mind Thinking like mine!