All Struggle with Sin!

No matter who we are in Christ, and no matter what our calling or ministry is, we all fall short and struggle with sin. No matter our position, platform, or financial status in Christ, no matter how long we have been saved, baptized or even who baptized us; we all struggle and wrestle with our sinful nature.

No longer is it about how many years you served or preached, no longer is it about how long you have been shepherding, evangelizing, or prophesying…. We all struggle!

Let us today be sober in this truth, we are born “unqualified” and have always been “unqualified” because of sinful nature. Yes, even as a babe in Christ and even now if (we) are the mature Christian. (Romans 7:21-25).

Jesus is the One who “over qualifies” us through the shedding of His blood for our sins.

Let us be mindful in gratitude and looking to understand gratefulness, otherwise we may look upon our talents, our gifts, our calling, our ministries and even our experiences as the catalyst to our success in this life that we now have hidden in Christ Jesus.

Let us not be the one who once believed, saw, and now speaks another doctrine!

(Galatians 3:1-9)

No longer should we boast in our theologies, or which seminary schools we attended, no longer is it about which town, city or whose church you were standing in when they imparted your anointing…. (2 Cor 10:17-18).

No mantle, stage, platform, title, position, or authority given to a child of God from God, should take a man or woman of God out of the Will of God that placed them there in the first place. Confess, for He is willing and faithful to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness! That’s good news!

All fall short of the glory of God, and all suffer it within the deepness of our inner man, that our spirit is willing, but our flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:41)

All of us struggle with sin! (1 John 1:8-9). I have learned that we all walk out our sin differently, as babes in Christ and as the mature; as it seems we all are continuing to strive for the “upward call” in Christ, if we haven’t answered to a more detrimental calling. Our walk in sin may look like pride, offense, and entitlement. It may look like shame, guilt, and full of sorrow, and even further, the least “practiced” or even “performed” amongst us, which is repentance and humility.

Regardless of how we walk these out, or even how we landed there, the Lord will always be rather pleased with our confession by acknowledging our sin, (1 John 1:8-9). Humbling ourselves by the “allowance of the Holy spirit to come closer and sober us up by searching our hearts to nudge us in the way, for either we will be headed towards a great falling where the “cornerstone will crush us or we will fall upon the cornerstone and be transformed, used effectively, soberly, and ultimately rewardingly according to His promises.

Let us confess our sins, humbly and sorrowfully, seeking the exchange to transform in His presence and in the forgiveness of our sins. Let us boast in our weaknesses, not in, (fear it not be so) the thanksgiving of the ‘lofty wicked imagination of an entitlement to think we don’t have to acknowledge our sinful nature while working in the fields of the Lord.

Until Next time Beloved, Read the Word to Know Him!