As Richard J. Foster said in his book, sin is something that is with us all the time and we have lived with it during all the days of our lives. It is like doing a normal and daily work while we’re doing it.
In the movie The Lord of The Rings we know that Frodo is a very good and faithful boy, but at the end of the story when he wants to throw the ring in the fire he doesn’t, and wants to keep it for himself. Then Golum comes and actually save him by biting his finger. After destroying the ring Frodo understands what he’d done.
This goes back to the part that Foster says sin is always with us and it never leaves us, and we do it each day without even thinking about it. Even though we are very good and faithful people we still are capable of sinning. The only way that we can stand against temptation is by god’s grace.
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You are SO right, Nazli, and it's SO frustrating to be in the struggle!
St. Paul said, "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do..." (Romans 7:18-19)
--Mrs. S.
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