Biblical Encouragements

Everytime I Turn To God, I Sin Afterwards

Question
I keep feeling guilty and condemn  myself whenever I sin or make a mistake. I don't feel as though I'm Christian enough.

Answer
Hey, sis. You need to realise something. What is your perspective on your walk?

We can sometimes fall into the trap of relying on our emotions. There are times when you can feel on fire, filled, and just amazing in your walk. You can read the word for hours, and there are moments when you won't feel like reading or praying. It can happen, but whenever that occurs, I push myself to read and pray anyway because you shouldn't rely on your emotions.

You can feel the Holy Spirit, and at other times, you can feel like nothing is happening. When you feel like that, read and pray anyway. It's not about goosebumps and overwhelming fire for God. You have a zeal for God and passion for Him, yes, but don't allow the days when you'll feel tired or you feel God is not listening to hinder you or stop you from SEEKING God. When you go before God, He is always there whether you feel it or not. Whenever you stop, you're allowing the enemy to hinder your spiritual growth.

I simply can't rely on my feelings to direct me, or else for one month, you'll see tons of posts and the next month none at all. Your walk with God will be a walk filled with highs, lows, excitement, sadness, pain, and joy. It's all of that, but God is with you through it all, and giving up is never an option.

And lastly. Sis, we all sin. I want you to see yourself and ask yourself what you have in your mind. If you imagine yourself as a Godly woman, one who doesn't sin that's never going to happen here right now with our earthly bodies, perfection will never occur. What you're doing is that you're on the right track. When we sin, we should repent and turn away from the sin, confess to God, and ask for forgiveness, then we move on. This is the Christian walk. To expect to reach a certain level where sin becomes completely non-existent with your earhty body is self-deception.

We all fall short, when we repent this doesn't mean you'll never lie again, never hurt again, never lust again or never fall again it means you're choosing not to go on that path anymore. Not to go on the path of being a liar, sexual immorality, selfishness, anger, etc. It doesn't mean you are perfect and will never make a mistake again. I sin, we all sin, and every Christian has fallen short of God's glory, but in Jesus Christ, we are redeemed and have salvation. If we can say, "Today I didn't sin at all!" or "I finally haven't sinned anymore. Now, I don't need to go back to God ever. "

We are deceiving ourselves, and I want you to pull away from that deception. You will fall again because you're human. You won't ever be perfect. You might sin intentionally or unintentionally, but what makes us different is that we are not walking in sin. We seek to walk in righteousness. When we fall, we get back up and continue. If you run a race, when you fall, you shouldn't just quit the race but keep on going.

God is not disappointed in you because He knows you're not perfect. He didn't call a perfect you sis, He called you, the sinful, the broken, the repentant daughter, this is you and He is doing work to make you more and more like Him each day

When you sin, God is more concerned with you repenting and going back to Him than the number of times you've sinned. So if today, you make a mistake, repent and ask God to help you. Don't fall into the trap of running from God when you fall but when you do, in the middle of that mess that's when you cry "Abba Father", you cry out to God and tell Him you need Him.

As Christians, we hold no perfection that we can say we don't need Jesus today because we didn't sin. We hold no perfection to say that we are okay and can carry on walking in righteousness. We, as Christians, each day go on our knees and pray before God for forgiveness, help, and grace over the battle against sin.

When you sin, repent, go back to God, and keep running the race. Fell again? Get up, keep moving, and seek God. Fell again? That's okay. Go back, repent, and seek God. Fell again? Keep going after God, and every time you seek to live righteously and move on, you're breaking the layers, and you're becoming more pure like Jesus, and soon you'll become more radiate of His glory.

This is different from sinning intentionally. We shouldn't have a perspective of sin now and repent later, but when we truly love God, sin will suffocate us. It will feel difficult to have peace with sin. Your spirit won't be at rest, and your heart is broken because you know it hurts Him. The one who loves God won't delight in sin but can fall into sin, and when they do, they will be so quick to repent because they love God and want more of Him.

Romans 3:23
English Standard Version
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Galatians 5:16-27
English Standard Version
Keep in Step with the Spirit
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Romans 8:1
English Standard Version

Life in the Spirit
8

 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.[

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