Focus your life there, always keeping Jesus at the center of your vision. Take joy in being able to show your love for Him by serving others. Do these things, not because they are the right thing to do, but do them as an offering to the God who has forgiven you. Become the servant among the people you encounter. Seek to sacrifice yourself for the sake of God and others. Learn to pray and to carry out the duties of a priest in bringing the needs of others before our God. Focus your life on Jesus Christ and His righteousness. Rather, make it your aim to live life in righteousness, devoted to God. God wants to transform us into the image of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18).Īccordingly, I encourage you not to accept the status quo of living life in the Judges’ cycle of sin, repentance, deliverance, and back to sin. The goal of being saved is not simply salvation from the penalty of sin, but deliverance from sin’s power over our lives. If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ. John in 1 John 2:1 writes to us so that we will not sin. Paul states it this way in Romans 6:16 that when we yield to sin we make ourselves servants of sin when we yield to righteousness we make ourselves servants of righteousness. As Scripture states, if we walk in the Spirit we will not fulfill the desires of the flesh (Galatians 5:16). However, God has given us His Holy Spirit. As you have learned, we are not able to follow this command on our own. But as Jesus told the woman caught in adultery, once we have been forgiven we are to sin no more (John 5:14). God is quick to forgive when we repent and turn back to Him.

You seem to be caught in a cycle of sin, repentance, and more sin, much like Israel in the days of the Judges and like Paul in Romans 7:14-24. Doesn’t He get tired of me continually asking to be forgiven for the same thing over and over again? I find it so incredibly hard to believe that He really does forgive me and I always think He’s like, here we go again, so often I feel like He doesn’t really forgive me. I always end up feeling guilty once I sin and repent because I can’t believe that God really does forgive me when I know I did it on purpose. I repent and ask God to forgive me every single day, even after I commit the sin. It’s so hard to resist the temptation to do the sin and I know the Bible says if I repent, I am forgiven. I still find myself committing the same sins I’ve been doing for a while when I know better. I didn’t fully understand how salvation worked when I was younger and numerous times I’ve re-dedicated myself back to the Lord and asked Him to forgive me. I accepted Jesus Christ into my life at a very young age.

Will god forgive me for my addiction