feeling unworthy?

weezer · Aug 7, 2016

I seem to be stuck in a perpetual cycle of sinning, begging God for forgiveness, but then sinning once again. I know we are all fated to perpetual sin, and that is the reason Jesus died on the cross for us, to save us, but I just feel so awful afterwards. When I was younger I didn't even recognize what sins I was committing, and so I never felt remorse, but now being older and recognizing the sins in my life, I feel so bad when I do. I've never lost faith, but I do go on hiatuses in a way from time to time because I feel so unworthy to speak to God or to ask Him for anything. I know that it's at times like that where I need Him the most, but I just feel so awful. It's like I sin, and tell myself I'm going to change this time, that this time I'll pray more, this time I'll start reading my bible more, this time I'll do this or that, and then the next thing I know I'm right back to sinning. I can never stay on the path. I always stray away. Any advice on how to stay on the path God set before me? and how to not feel so bad and to find the courage to ask God for forgiveness?

Lynx · Aug 7, 2016

You'd think I'd have it down by now
I've been practicing for thirty years
I should have walked a thousand miles
So what am I still doing here?
Reaching out for that same old piece of forbidden fruit
I slip and fall and I knock my halo loose
Somebody tell me what's a boy supposed to do?

Cause I get so clumsy
And I get so foolish
I can get so stupid sometimes
And I feel so useless
But You're saying You love me
And You're still gonna hold me
And that You wanna be near me
Lord You're making me holy
Still making me holy, yeah

~Chris Rice

"Clumsy"

PennEd · Aug 7, 2016

Hi Weezer!

You're story is a very familiar one. First realize that if you are in Christ then you are God's child and He loves you beyond measure.

One of the things to help me was the realization that Jesus LIVES in me! And You! This is why you feel bad about your sin. Those who are not His Children don't really feel remorse for their sin. They may feel bad if they are caught, but not really bad about the sin itself.

YOU are the vessel/Temple of God. Think about that when temptation arises. Talk to Him, envision hugging Him, and feed your living Spirit NOT your dead flesh.

Dear Holy Father, please help this young man realize who he is in You. Put on his heart what You would have him do for Your Glory and his good. In Jesus sweet Name I pray. Amen

weezer · Aug 7, 2016

Lynx said:

I find I always turn to music in times like this. It always cheers me up, this is another favorite of mine to remind me not to feel so down:

"Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again?"

Casting Crowns - "Who Am I?"

weezer · Aug 7, 2016

PennEd said:

this is very helpful, thank you! It's not just a belief in the mind, it is a physical relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit being within me.

Lynx · Aug 7, 2016

Well here's the song then. Thank you YouTube.

[video=youtube;Ue_7CZ2AzR0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_7CZ2AzR0[/video]

Ahwatukee · Aug 7, 2016

Hello weezer,

Believe me, we've all been there and some are still there. I had the same problem of not being able to come out from under the sinful nature. It was like I was a hostage along for the ride. I read, I prayed, but the flesh still had a hold of me. All other sins seemed to follow behind sexual immorality. I finally got to a point in my life where the new man in Christ and the sinful nature were tearing me apart! It was at that time that I prayed to God that either this life of sin was going to lead me to destruction or that God was going to make a way for me to overcome the sinful nature. In order to do this, I had to completely cut out all sexual temptation out of my life. I did no dating, had no girl friends, nothing. I focused only on getting the sexual sin out of my life and the associated sins followed. I am still a sinner, but I am no longer willfully sowing to the flesh, but to the Spirit. God saw that I was sincere and though it was still a battle, God helped me to overcome. He'll do the same for you, but you have to be sincere about breaking free of the sinful nature and all the sins that entangles us. You have to be completely focused on getting the victory over it.

The above is a lie of the enemy! He wants us to feel bad and not worthy to come to the throne of grace. What you should be doing is no matter how many times you sin and are grieved by them, continue to go to the Lord immediately and confess it and continue to ask God to give you strength to overcome it. I don't care how many times you do it. If you are grieved about it, keep going to the Father in the name of Jesus and confessing it. God has already made it know that we are unworthy, so when the voice of the enemy comes to tell you that you are unworthy to be forgiven because you continue to do the same sins, that is when you need to go to the throne of grace.

Remember when Peter said, "Lord, how often shall I forgive my brother, up to seven times in a day?" And Jesus reply was, "not seven times, but seventy times seven." As often as he asks to be forgiven, forgive him. It is the same with the Lord. Keep going to him no matter how many times you sin and no matter how you feel. The sinful nature is the very thing that we need to overcome. It is apart of our being transformed into Christ's image. I'll keep you in prayer.

Silverwings · Aug 7, 2016

Romans 7:1

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Chapter 7We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification (v. 1-6). II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle’s own experience, notwithstanding (v. 7-14). III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart (v. 14, 15, to the end).
Verses 1-6
Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (v. 14), that we are not under the law; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (v. 6): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are delivered from the power of the law which curses and condemns us for the sin committed by us. The sentence of the law against us is vacated and reversed, by the death of Christ, to all true believers. The law saith, The soul that sins shall die; but we are delivered from the law. The Lord has taken away thy sin, thou shalt not die. We are redeemed from the curse of the law, Gal. 3:13. 2. We are delivered from that power of the law which irritates and provokes the sin that dwelleth in us. This the apostle seems especially to refer to (v. 5): The motions of sins which were by the law. The law, by commanding, forbidding, threatening, corrupt and fallen man, but offering no grace to cure and strengthen, did but stir up the corruption, and, like the sun shining upon a dunghill, excite and draw up the filthy steams. We being lamed by the fall, the law comes and directs us, but provides nothing to heal and help our lameness, and so makes us halt and stumble the more. Understand this of the law not as a rule, but as a covenant of works. Now each of these is an argument why we should be holy; for here is encouragement to endeavours, though in many things we come short. We are under grace, which promises strength to do what it commands, and pardon upon repentance when we do amiss. This is the scope of these verses in general, that, in point of profession and privilege, we are under a covenant of grace, and not under a covenant of works-under the gospel of Christ, and not under the law of Moses. The difference between a law-state and a gospel-state he had before illustrated by the similitude of rising to a new life, and serving a new master; now here he speaks of is under the similitude of being married to a new husband.
I. Our first marriage was to the law, which, according to the law of marriage, was to continue only during the life of the law. The law of marriage is binding till the death of one of the parties, no matter which, and no longer. The death of either discharges both. For this he appeals to themselves, as persons knowing the law (v. 1): I speak to those that know the law. It is a great advantage to discourse with those that have knowledge, for such can more readily understand and apprehend a truth. Many of the Christians at Rome were such as had been Jews, and so were well acquainted with the law. One has some hold of knowing people. The law hath power over a man as long as he liveth; in particular, the law of marriage hath power; or, in general, every law is so limited-the laws of nations, of relations, of families, etc. 1. The obligation of laws extends no further; by death the servant who, while he lived, was under the yoke, is freed from his master, Job 3:19. 2. The condemnation of laws extends no further; death is the finishing of the law. Actio moritur cum personâ—The action expires with the person. The severest laws could but kill the body, and after that there is no more that they can do. Thus while we were alive to the law we were under the power of it-while we were in our Old-Testament state, before the gospel came into the world, and before it came with power into our hearts. Such is the law of marriage (v. 2), the woman is bound to her husband during life, so bound to him that she cannot marry another; if she do, she shall be reckoned an adulteress, v. 3. It will make her an adulteress, not only to be defiled by, but to be married to, another man; for that is so much the worse, upon this account, that it abuses an ordinance of God, by making it to patronise the uncleanness. Thus were we married to the law (v. 5): When we were in the flesh, that is, in a carnal state, under the reigning power of sin and corruption-in the flesh as in our element-then the motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members, we were carried down the stream of sin, and the law was but as an imperfect dam, which made the stream to swell the higher, and rage the more. Our desire was towards sin, as that of the wife towards her husband, and sin ruled over us. We embraced it, loved it, devoted all to it, conversed daily with it, made it our care to please it. We were under a law of sin and death, as the wife under the law of marriage; and the product of this marriage was fruit brought forth unto death, that is, actual transgressions were produced by the original corruption, such as deserve death. Lust, having conceived by the law (which is the strength of sin, 1 Co. 15:56), bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, Jam. 1:15. This is the posterity that springs from this marriage to sin and the law. This comes of the motions of sin working in our members. And this continues during life, while the law is alive to us, and we are alive to the law.
II. Our second marriage is to Christ: and how comes this about? Why,
1. We are freed, by death, from our obligation to the law as a covenant, as the wife is from her obligation to her husband, v. 3. This resemblance is not very close, nor needed it to be. You are become dead to the law, v. 4. He does not say, "The law is dead" (some think because he would avoid giving offence to those who were yet zealous for the law), but, which comes all to one, You are dead to the law. As the crucifying of the world to us, and of us to the world, amounts to one and the same thing, so doth the law dying, and our dying to it. We are delivered from the law (v. 6), kateµrgeµtheµmen—we are nulled as to the law; our obligation to it as a husband is cassated and made void. And then he speaks of the law being dead as far as it was a law of bondage to us: That being dead wherein we were held; not the law itself, but its obligation to punishment and its provocation to sin. It is dead, it has lost its power; and this (v. 4) by the body of Christ, that is, by the sufferings of Christ in his body, by his crucified body, which abrogated the law, answered the demands of it, made satisfaction for our violation of it, purchased for us a covenant of grace, in which righteousness and strength are laid up for us, such as were not, nor could be, by the law. We are dead to the law by our union with the mystical body of Christ. By being incorporated into Christ in our baptism professedly, in our believing powerfully and effectually, we are dead to the law, have no more to do with it than the dead servant, that is free from his master, hath to do with his master’s yoke.
2. We are married to Christ. The day of our believing is the day of our espousals to the Lord Jesus. We enter upon a life of dependence on him and duty to him: Married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, a periphrasis of Christ and very pertinent here; for as our dying to sin and the law is in conformity to the death of Christ, and the crucifying of his body, so our devotedness to Christ in newness of life is in conformity to the resurrection of Christ. We are married to the raised exalted Jesus, a very honourable marriage. Compare 2 Co. 11:2; Eph. 5:29. Now we are thus married to Christ, (1.) That we should bring forth fruit unto God, v. 4. One end of marriage is fruitfulness: God instituted the ordinance that he might seek a godly seed, Mal. 2:15. The wife is compared to the fruitful vine, and children are called the fruit of the womb. Now the great end of our marriage to Christ is our fruitfulness in love, and grace, and every good work. This is fruit unto God, pleasing to God, according to his will, aiming at his glory. As our old marriage to sin produced fruit unto death, so our second marriage to Christ produces fruit unto God, fruits of righteousness. Good works are the children of the new nature, the products of our union with Christ, as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its union with the root. Whatever our professions and pretensions may be, there is no fruit brought forth to God till we are married to Christ; it is in Christ Jesus that we are created unto good works, Eph. 2:10. The only fruit which turns to a good account is that which is brought forth in Christ. This distinguishes the good works of believers from the good works of hypocrites and self-justifiers that they are brought forth in marriage, done in union with Christ, in the name of the Lord Jesus, Col. 3:17. This is, without controversy, one of the great mysteries of godliness. (2.) That we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, v. 6. Being married to a new husband, we must change our way. Still we must serve, but it is a service that is perfect freedom, whereas the service of sin was a perfect drudgery: we must now serve in newness of spirit, by new spiritual rules, from new spiritual principles, in spirit and in truth, Jn. 4:24. There must be a renovation of our spirits wrought by the spirit of God, and in that we must serve. Not in the oldness of the letter; that is, we must not rest in mere external services, as the carnal Jews did, who gloried in their adherence to the letter of the law, and minded not the spiritual part of worship. The letter is said to kill with its bondage and terror, but we are delivered from that yoke that we may serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness, Lu. 1:74, 75. We are under the dispensation of the Spirit, and therefore must be spiritual, and serve in the spirit. Compare with this 2 Co. 3:3, 6, etc. It becomes us to worship within the veil, and no longer in the outward court.

Adstar · Aug 7, 2016

weezer said:

Acknowledge your sins as such to God and thank Him for securing for you salvation through the Atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ.. Begging for forgiveness when you are already forgiven is pointless.. Or do you think you need to ask for forgiveness each and every time you sin? What would happen if you sinned one day and died suddenly in a car accident before you had time to beg for forgiveness for that sin to God? Would you be doomed to hell because you failed to beg for forgiveness for that last sin? .. No of course you would not be doomed.. If you believe Jesus and trust in the Atonement He secured for your salvation then you Will be forgiven and you Will have eternal life with God..

Oh and PS: Feeling unworthy is natural because we are ALL unworthy of the promises of Christ.. No one is Worthy.. Thats why salvation is a truth GIFT from God to us who believe and have Faith in the Worthiness of Jesus..

Silverwings · Aug 7, 2016

Romans 7:1

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Chapter 7We may observe in this chapter, I. Our freedom from the law further urged as an argument to press upon us sanctification (v. 1-6). II. The excellency and usefulness of the law asserted and proved from the apostle’s own experience, notwithstanding (v. 7-14). III. A description of the conflict between grace and corruption in the heart (v. 14, 15, to the end).
Verses 1-6
Among other arguments used in the foregoing chapter to persuade us against sin, and to holiness, this was one (v. 14), that we are not under the law; and this argument is here further insisted upon and explained (v. 6): We are delivered from the law. What is meant by this? And how is it an argument why sin should not reign over us, and why we should walk in newness of life? 1. We are delivered from the power of the law which curses and condemns us for the sin committed by us. The sentence of the law against us is vacated and reversed, by the death of Christ, to all true believers. The law saith, The soul that sins shall die; but we are delivered from the law. The Lord has taken away thy sin, thou shalt not die. We are redeemed from the curse of the law, Gal. 3:13. 2. We are delivered from that power of the law which irritates and provokes the sin that dwelleth in us. This the apostle seems especially to refer to (v. 5): The motions of sins which were by the law. The law, by commanding, forbidding, threatening, corrupt and fallen man, but offering no grace to cure and strengthen, did but stir up the corruption, and, like the sun shining upon a dunghill, excite and draw up the filthy steams. We being lamed by the fall, the law comes and directs us, but provides nothing to heal and help our lameness, and so makes us halt and stumble the more. Understand this of the law not as a rule, but as a covenant of works. Now each of these is an argument why we should be holy; for here is encouragement to endeavours, though in many things we come short. We are under grace, which promises strength to do what it commands, and pardon upon repentance when we do amiss. This is the scope of these verses in general, that, in point of profession and privilege, we are under a covenant of grace, and not under a covenant of works-under the gospel of Christ, and not under the law of Moses. The difference between a law-state and a gospel-state he had before illustrated by the similitude of rising to a new life, and serving a new master; now here he speaks of is under the similitude of being married to a new husband.
I. Our first marriage was to the law, which, according to the law of marriage, was to continue only during the life of the law. The law of marriage is binding till the death of one of the parties, no matter which, and no longer. The death of either discharges both. For this he appeals to themselves, as persons knowing the law (v. 1): I speak to those that know the law. It is a great advantage to discourse with those that have knowledge, for such can more readily understand and apprehend a truth. Many of the Christians at Rome were such as had been Jews, and so were well acquainted with the law. One has some hold of knowing people. The law hath power over a man as long as he liveth; in particular, the law of marriage hath power; or, in general, every law is so limited-the laws of nations, of relations, of families, etc. 1. The obligation of laws extends no further; by death the servant who, while he lived, was under the yoke, is freed from his master, Job 3:19. 2. The condemnation of laws extends no further; death is the finishing of the law. Actio moritur cum personâ—The action expires with the person. The severest laws could but kill the body, and after that there is no more that they can do. Thus while we were alive to the law we were under the power of it-while we were in our Old-Testament state, before the gospel came into the world, and before it came with power into our hearts. Such is the law of marriage (v. 2), the woman is bound to her husband during life, so bound to him that she cannot marry another; if she do, she shall be reckoned an adulteress, v. 3. It will make her an adulteress, not only to be defiled by, but to be married to, another man; for that is so much the worse, upon this account, that it abuses an ordinance of God, by making it to patronise the uncleanness. Thus were we married to the law (v. 5): When we were in the flesh, that is, in a carnal state, under the reigning power of sin and corruption-in the flesh as in our element-then the motions of sins which were by the law did work in our members, we were carried down the stream of sin, and the law was but as an imperfect dam, which made the stream to swell the higher, and rage the more. Our desire was towards sin, as that of the wife towards her husband, and sin ruled over us. We embraced it, loved it, devoted all to it, conversed daily with it, made it our care to please it. We were under a law of sin and death, as the wife under the law of marriage; and the product of this marriage was fruit brought forth unto death, that is, actual transgressions were produced by the original corruption, such as deserve death. Lust, having conceived by the law (which is the strength of sin, 1 Co. 15:56), bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, Jam. 1:15. This is the posterity that springs from this marriage to sin and the law. This comes of the motions of sin working in our members. And this continues during life, while the law is alive to us, and we are alive to the law.
II. Our second marriage is to Christ: and how comes this about? Why,
1. We are freed, by death, from our obligation to the law as a covenant, as the wife is from her obligation to her husband, v. 3. This resemblance is not very close, nor needed it to be. You are become dead to the law, v. 4. He does not say, "The law is dead" (some think because he would avoid giving offence to those who were yet zealous for the law), but, which comes all to one, You are dead to the law. As the crucifying of the world to us, and of us to the world, amounts to one and the same thing, so doth the law dying, and our dying to it. We are delivered from the law (v. 6), kateµrgeµtheµmen—we are nulled as to the law; our obligation to it as a husband is cassated and made void. And then he speaks of the law being dead as far as it was a law of bondage to us: That being dead wherein we were held; not the law itself, but its obligation to punishment and its provocation to sin. It is dead, it has lost its power; and this (v. 4) by the body of Christ, that is, by the sufferings of Christ in his body, by his crucified body, which abrogated the law, answered the demands of it, made satisfaction for our violation of it, purchased for us a covenant of grace, in which righteousness and strength are laid up for us, such as were not, nor could be, by the law. We are dead to the law by our union with the mystical body of Christ. By being incorporated into Christ in our baptism professedly, in our believing powerfully and effectually, we are dead to the law, have no more to do with it than the dead servant, that is free from his master, hath to do with his master’s yoke.
2. We are married to Christ. The day of our believing is the day of our espousals to the Lord Jesus. We enter upon a life of dependence on him and duty to him: Married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, a periphrasis of Christ and very pertinent here; for as our dying to sin and the law is in conformity to the death of Christ, and the crucifying of his body, so our devotedness to Christ in newness of life is in conformity to the resurrection of Christ. We are married to the raised exalted Jesus, a very honourable marriage. Compare 2 Co. 11:2; Eph. 5:29. Now we are thus married to Christ, (1.) That we should bring forth fruit unto God, v. 4. One end of marriage is fruitfulness: God instituted the ordinance that he might seek a godly seed, Mal. 2:15. The wife is compared to the fruitful vine, and children are called the fruit of the womb. Now the great end of our marriage to Christ is our fruitfulness in love, and grace, and every good work. This is fruit unto God, pleasing to God, according to his will, aiming at his glory. As our old marriage to sin produced fruit unto death, so our second marriage to Christ produces fruit unto God, fruits of righteousness. Good works are the children of the new nature, the products of our union with Christ, as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its union with the root. Whatever our professions and pretensions may be, there is no fruit brought forth to God till we are married to Christ; it is in Christ Jesus that we are created unto good works, Eph. 2:10. The only fruit which turns to a good account is that which is brought forth in Christ. This distinguishes the good works of believers from the good works of hypocrites and self-justifiers that they are brought forth in marriage, done in union with Christ, in the name of the Lord Jesus, Col. 3:17. This is, without controversy, one of the great mysteries of godliness. (2.) That we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, v. 6. Being married to a new husband, we must change our way. Still we must serve, but it is a service that is perfect freedom, whereas the service of sin was a perfect drudgery: we must now serve in newness of spirit, by new spiritual rules, from new spiritual principles, in spirit and in truth, Jn. 4:24. There must be a renovation of our spirits wrought by the spirit of God, and in that we must serve. Not in the oldness of the letter; that is, we must not rest in mere external services, as the carnal Jews did, who gloried in their adherence to the letter of the law, and minded not the spiritual part of worship. The letter is said to kill with its bondage and terror, but we are delivered from that yoke that we may serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness, Lu. 1:74, 75. We are under the dispensation of the Spirit, and therefore must be spiritual, and serve in the spirit. Compare with this 2 Co. 3:3, 6, etc. It becomes us to worship within the veil, and no longer in the outward court.

Silverwings · Aug 7, 2016

Awesome reply Ahwatukee~

Fasting is designed to break strongholds in our lives and that is exactly what you did, and you are reaping freedom!!! Praise the Living God!!!!

Silverwings · Aug 7, 2016

When the enemy tells you that you are unworthy, agree with him, but tell him that your Savior is Worthy, and it is in Him you have placed your trust!!!

Grace-Like-Rain · Aug 7, 2016

weezer said:

Weezer, I love that you asked this. It shows a spirit of humility and desire to grow in Christ that is an encouragement to all of us, so thank you!

Galatians 6:2 (and other places in scripture) speaks of "bearing one another's burdens", and that is what comes to mind when I read your OP. Sin, in the dark, is tantalizing and powerful. But once we throw the door open and light streams in, we see it for what it is, in all of it's ugliness. It loses it's power over us.

I would suggest that you be proactive in fighting perpetual sins by confiding in an accountability partner that you can trust, who cares for you and can help you stay on track. Just the confession itself could be enough to break the cycle, but if not, your friend can meet with you regularly and ask how it's going, pray with you over it, and lend you strength to fight it. If no one comes to mind when you think about who you can ask, choose someone who is grounded in the Word, spiritually mature, and strong enough to hold you accountable. I really think this would be a huge step in breaking your cycle. God created us to need one another. Ask a brother to help you.

Silverwings · Sep 3, 2016

Adstar said:

Acknowledge your sins as such to God and thank Him for securing for you salvation through the Atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ.. Begging for forgiveness when you are already forgiven is pointless.. Or do you think you need to ask for forgiveness each and every time you sin? What would happen if you sinned one day and died suddenly in a car accident before you had time to beg for forgiveness for that sin to God? Would you be doomed to hell because you failed to beg for forgiveness for that last sin? .. No of course you would not be doomed.. If you believe Jesus and trust in the Atonement He secured for your salvation then you Will be forgiven and you Will have eternal life with God..

Oh and PS: Feeling unworthy is natural because we are ALL unworthy of the promises of Christ.. No one is Worthy.. Thats why salvation is a truth GIFT from God to us who believe and have Faith in the Worthiness of Jesus..

Study these words:

http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/141127-who-does-god-say-i-am-christ.html#post2773202

zeroturbulence · Sep 3, 2016

weezer said:

Your love for God and your fear of offending Him is basically what you're dealing with. I'm sure God greatly appreciates your effort, but at the same time He does not want you to feel like a slave to this concept of trying to stay sin-free. Doing so will just keep you in a constant cycle of disappointment and misery..

Everyone sinns and has sinned... the prophets did it (Moses was a murderer), the apostles did it (Paul was a persecuter of christians, Matthew was a tax collector, Peter denied christ in public three times, etc...), but they could not do their appointed jobs if they were concerned with not sinning 24 hours a day. God does not want you to spend the bulk of your energy being fearful and sorry. A pastor once said it best.. God does not expect us to be perfect. He only asks us to make an honest effort to be good christians.. (I'm paraphrasing).

So stop convicting yourself 24/7 and just try to live a good christian life. God knows its impossible for us humans to be perfect and that trying to is just a futile exercise in failure. That's not what He painfully and excruciatingly sacrificed His only son for. His mercy is there for those times that we ask for his forgiveness but he doesn't want us to make that our #1 concern in life.

persontalkto · Sep 9, 2016

Forgiveness means forgiveness, and if it has already been granted, asking for it is stating you do not believe the truth

If it was granted, feeling guilty becomes no longer part of the path, turning and leaving is not part of part of it either, and it was granted so you did not have to do this, the less time you spend thinking about sin, the less it is in your realm, the less you think to do it

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