Postby Puritan » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:04 pm
A lot has been going on in my spiritual life lately, and I thought I would share what I have learned and what God has done in my life (and hope I don’t ramble on too badly). For starters, I have struggled with a particular sin for years now, though it might be more apt to say I was in a love/hate relationship with my sin. I hated my sin, but continued to go back to it over and over again. I would sin, ask forgiveness for my sin and God’s help to turn from it, and attempt to repent and turn away from my sin, but my efforts were in vain. I would, as an elder at my church put it, “grit my teethâ€
"...cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you." - John Owen The Mortification of Sin