From the moment we open our hearts to God and allow Him to be our Lord and Savior we set aside our intentional life of sin and begin to live no longer to satisfy our fleshly desires, but rather to try to please God .
Obviously on the way to please God we will be seduced to fail and many times we will fail, but there are two ways to see the Christian life starting from this:
The first is to see sin as an excuse, that is, to use the trite phrases to excuse oneself from their error: "I am imperfect", "I am human", "I am weak", did anyone doubt those three things before you failed? Obvious that we are imperfect, it is obvious that we are human and it is obvious that we are by nature weak before sin, but none of those three excuses or others that you want to put before the acknowledgment of your error can solve the fact already made concrete.
The Bible is clear in saying what the reason for sin is: "On the contrary, when we are tempted, it is our own desires that drag and dominate us. Evil desires lead us to sin; and when we live only to do evil, the only thing that awaits us is eternal death "James 1: 14-15 (Translation in current language).
We fail or sin when our own desires dominate us, although each one of us has been endowed with OWN DOMAIN: "Because God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, love and self-control" 2 Timothy 1: 7 ( Reina-Valera 1960). When reading this passage it is evident that the only cause for which we sin is because we simply want to do it and not because we are imperfect, human or weak, it is simply that we wanted to do it, because having used the self-control that God gave us, we would have decided do not fail.
Nor can we put the grace of God as an excuse for sin, because the Apostle Paul wrote: "Now, should we continue to sin so that God will show us more and more his wonderful grace? Of course not! We have died to sin, then how is it possible that we continue to live in sin? "Romans 6: 1-2 (New Living Translation).
The Second is to see sin as a reason to seek more of God, that is, it is impossible for us not to fail on this path to eternal life, but there is a huge difference between failing with the excuse that we are imperfect and failing with the pain of know how good you could have been faithful.
When we fail and feel pain from what we did, it is a pure sign that the Holy Spirit of God is rebuilding our life, as a consequence there should be in us a deeper desire to seek more of God so as not to fail again.
The Apostle Paul encouraged Timothy in the following way: "You, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." 2 Timothy 2: 1 (Reina-Valera 1960).
And it is that failing God would have to provoke in us a desire to improve, a desire to be faithful to God, a desire not to commit the same mistake again, a desire to improve ourselves in that area that on this occasion was a stumbling block .
The Apostle Paul felt the need of God in his weakness and writes the following: "And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; because my power is perfected in weakness. Therefore, I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. "2 Corinthians 12: 9 (Reina-Valera 1960). I am struck by the word: "willingly" and is that when far from excusing our weaknesses, we willingly seek the favor of God we can become stronger, because God is perfected in our weaknesses.
Now, we can live our Christian life in two ways: Excusing ourselves for our failures or recognizing our weakness and seeking more of God each day.
A mediocre life in the gospel is one that does not pay attention to his constant life of sin, because he simply believes that it is normal and that everyone does it, but the reality is that God called us when we walked in our crimes and sins, we forgive ourselves He restored us and now he wants us to fight each day to please him not by doing what we used to do before, but by seeking his favor through what is stipulated in his Word.
The Bible says it clearly:
"God has shown how much he loves everyone, because he has offered them the possibility of saving themselves from the punishment they deserve. That love of God teaches us that we should stop doing evil, and not want the bad of this world. It also teaches us that, in this world, we must be honest and faithful to God, and think well about what we do. Thus we must live, while that happy and wonderful day that we all await arrives, when our great God and Savior Jesus Christ will manifest. He wanted to die to rescue us from everything bad and to purify us of our sins. In doing so, he converted us into his people, into a people determined to do good. "
Titus 2: 11-14 (Translation in current language)
Let's live each day determined to honor God!
