Sin

Back in the day my favorite band was Def Leppard......which is no secret. Anyway, I still like to listen to them now and then......not sure if it's a good thing, but I'm being honest here. Today I came across a song I haven't heard in 15+ years....and the lyrics all came back.

The chorus of a song called "White Lightning" went like this.....
"You wanna leave but you can't let go
You wanna stop but you can't say no
You never laugh about it
You just can't live without it
You had enough but you just want more
You never get what you're looking for"

The chorus of this song now means something different than it did to me back in the day. When I hear these words today it makes me think of sin and the sin patterns that just won't seem to go away. I heard someone say it this way..."just when you think you defeated a sin.....it comes back around looking like something else, all shiny and new". Isn't that the truth?

God tells us in His word that the heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure ( Jeremiah 17:9)
And Psalm 51:5 says that we are sinful since conception and birth.
Galatians 5:13 tells us that we aren't to use our freedom to indulge in our sinful desires.

See....we have free will and we can do what we want, when we want, and how we want. We are warned against this repeatedly in the Bible. We can't escape it....we have to rely on Christ to overcome. We can't do this alone.....we need help. We are all born with a natural bent toward one sin over others. We all have that one sin we just can't seem to shake. We all have that one sin that comes around all shiny and new after we think we defeat it. We are born that way.
We are born that way so we have a need for our Savior. If we didn't have our sinful nature and need saving .....we would need Jesus at all. So sin is horrible and keeps us from our Father, but we always have a way out.

2 Peter 2:11 tells us that we are to be aliens in this world and abstain from sinful desires, which war against our soul.

See....we have a choice. We have a way to get out from under the sin that traps us. We just need to pray and say "no".......but it's never that simple. Even after we accept Jesus, we will still sin and struggle with it. What I've found in my own life is I still sin but am more aware of it and don't "crave"  it like I did before. We will always sin until we get to glory with our Father. We sin because we are sinners. We will always be sinners....broken sinful people.....with ungodly desires.

Once we recognize we have sin in our life go to 1 john 1:9......confess it and repent. He will forgive and cleanse us! Our savior paid our penalty! We don't have to be a slave any longer or fall into our sin patterns. To God be the glory! Amen.