If we Christians are honest, I would suspect the vast majority of us struggle daily with sin. I know I certainly do. I do not have as much victory over sin as I wish I did. The struggle goes on EVERYDAY. I remember what Dwight L Moody said. He felt like a lifeboat on the sea, to get as many people saved as possible, so we preach the gospel, while there is still time. The day is coming, however, when the struggle will be over. Remember, precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of His saints, remembering to CAREFULLY define what a saint is. 😇
I do. About every 5 minutes.
I've stopped stressing about sin though.
God knows I do it. I know I do it.
For one thing, temptation is not sin so I don't need to beat myself up for being weak when I get tempted. I just say, "Nope, not going there. Get out of here."
And if I do sin, I see it as evidence that God is working in me, showing me stuff so I can confess of it and repent of it and we can work together on it to over come it.
But I also know, and He also knows, that as long as I'm in this body, I WILL sin. It's going to happen, so I thank Him that He chose to save me anyway and is working on me to over come it all anyway.
He isn't looking at me as I see myself. He sees me clothed in the righteousness of Christ and the finished product to the praise of His glory. He's looking at what I can become in Him, what He's making me in the new man, not in the flesh which has been crucified with Christ.
Sometimes I thing we expect more of ourselves than God expects of us, that we set higher standards for us than He does.
I know that I am much more forgiving of other people than I am of myself.
Hang in there, brother. He's working on you and not discouraged with what you think are setbacks.
We all battle with the "old man "...and one of the effects of being born again is we are more aware of our sin.. things we never would have thought of as sin in the past now shake our conscience ... I always think of John Bunyan's comment that His holiest prayer was sin before God .. we see our selfishness, our self centeredness, our anxiety, our self pity, our anger etc as sin ..where before because they were not on some list we would have overlooked..