I Am A Work In Progress

Do you feel like this? Well be encouraged you are not alone! It brings me great comfort to know that great Biblical figures who God spotlights in the Bible struggles with the same issues that we do. Look what Paul said:

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell 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 I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. Romans 7:15-20

To me it sounds like Paul is very frustrated!

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Look at David. God called him a man after his own heart.

1 Samuel 13:14

But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

Yet David lusted after Bathsheba and eventually committed adultery with her, and committed murder by sending her husband Uriah to the front lines of battle which meant a sure death! There are more and more great Biblical figures that struggled.

So if you are feeling like this, have heart you are in good company. Know that God is not looking for the perfect person, but someone who is trying and loves Him.