Even though I know

[Lenno]

Even though god loves me I’m tempted still to sin

 

[Sabertooth]

Even though god loves me I’m tempted still to sin

Are you going to a church that encourages you in your faith...?

If you don't have one, I recommend these:

• Vineyard,
• Assembly of God,
• Foursquare Church

(Links above are locators.)

 

[d taylor]

You are not alone.

 

[SkyWriting]

Even though god loves me I’m tempted still to sin

That is correct. We all expect that.

 

[JAM2b]

Everyone is tempted through out their lives. That is something that does not stop.

However, the Bible tells us that we will not be tempted beyond what we can bear. If you pray and ask for help God will help you.

 

[Unqualified]

Resist.

 

[Greengardener]

This walk is indeed an individual one of choice. With a loving Father who wants you to agree with His best practices, and an enemy who for some reason gets kicks from killing, stealing, and destroying in our lives, while we live in bodies that have strong and steady self-centered urges... we see Jesus, Who overcame, calling us also to overcome. Welcome to the struggle. I agree with Unqualified, who appears qualified to comment here: resist. It's worth it. God who calls you is worth it. You are worth it.

 

[disciple Clint]

Even though god loves me I’m tempted still to sin

Yes we all are, and we all need to repent time after time.

 

[splish- splash]

We become a better bride for Christ through our different struggles. We may stumble and at times even fall but the Lord, will always be by ourside to help us get back on our feet.

 

[Unqualified]

A righteous man falls seven times, it says in the proverbs, or even more.

 

[ViaCrucis]

Even though god loves me I’m tempted still to sin

That's true, that is part of the cross we are called to carry in this life--the struggle between the new man and the old man; between what we have been made by God's grace in Jesus Christ (and God is continually making until the day Jesus returns) and the old Adam that still clings to us, what Paul often calls "the flesh" in his letters--the old Adam, our old, dusty, mortal, sinful, disordered humanity.

Such struggle is a defining element of the Christian life. The Eastern Orthodox often call this struggle podvig, a Russian word that has no single English word translation, but is often translated as "spiritual struggle"; in the Lutheran tradition we describe this as the present living paradox of being "simultaneously both saint and sinner" (Latin simul iustus et peccator).

There is what we have received by grace and that which we are being conformed to by God's grace and the power of the Spirit--the new man in Jesus Christ. And there is the old Adam clawing at us and trying to drag us back down into our sinfully distorted desires and passions (called concupiscence in Western theology).

This is why the Church and the gifts which God has given His Church, namely God's Word and Sacraments, are the very means which God works His grace-filled work in our lives.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[aiki]

Even though god loves me I’m tempted still to sin

Yes. You still live in a fleshly body with its powerful, natural impulses. You have the patterns and habits of your old, selfish, godless life that God must dissolve and replace with new Christ-centered ones. This takes time, during which trial and temptation will confront you.

The key to being transformed isn't to struggle with yourself, pushing down desires, stuffing away what you really want to do but, rather, yielding yourself to God at every crossroads of choice between your way and His.

Romans 6:13-22
Romans 12:1
James 4:6-7, 10
1 Peter 5:6

Your "job," if you like, is to receive from God His work in you, by faith, to remain in it unmoved, and then to reflect His work in you in how you live. It is not your place to possess, procure and produce the Christian life for God.

More On The Three Spiritual R's: Receive, Remain, Reflect.

In Scripture, God repeatedly tells us that He takes the responsibility for changing us:

Philippians 1:6
Philippians 2:13
2 Corinthians 3:18
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
1 Peter 5:10
Jude 1:24-25

Since we walk with God in love (Matthew 22:36-38; 1 Corinthians 13:1-3; 1 John 4:16-19), He will not force us to His will and way. At every point of choice between Self (and sin) and God, we must choose God's will and way by submitting to Him and thus agreeing to His transformation of us, opening ourselves to the profoundly-altering work of the Holy Spirit. As we walk through each day this way, we are changed in our desires, our thinking and our conduct - often so deeply and subtly we don't, in any particular moment, see we are changed. Only in looking back over weeks and months is God's incredible alteration of us apparent.

Temptation, then, isn't an awful enemy, necessarily, but an opportunity to submit to God again and, by faith, wait on Him to move us away from Self and sin into the holy communion with Himself for which He made us.

 

[aiki]

Resist.

Amen. But FIRST: Submit.

James 4:7
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.