“Your comment about the more you try to overcome a sin, the more you think you are a sinner. {I am paraphrasing what you wrote]. But, I see that as a rather normal thing...”
Spot on! The Apostle Paul went on in Romans, chapter 7 quite elegantly about his own struggle with his sin, then wrapped it up beautifully! Rm 7:24-25 where he writes (NIV) What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!
elegantly=eloquently
DOH!