Pet Sins

[Osage Bluestem]

What is your favorite sin?

 

[saffron park]

Hanging Participles.

 

[Osage Bluestem]

Everyone wanting to play like they don't have sins they cling too?

 

[myhopeisfound]

PRIDE.

Usually crushed fairly quickly.

 

[RINO 72]

I keep checking this thread

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

Everyone wanting to play like they don't have sins they cling too?

you first

 

[AndOne]

None of your business.... Respectfully...

 

[Osage Bluestem]

you first

I love to drink to excess.
I love looking at and flirting with beautiful women.
I revel in pride.
I am extremely vain.
But most of all I check out virtually every woman I see.....

 

[Osage Bluestem]

None of your business.... Respectfully...

Lol!

So you're a pot head?

 

[PrayerandPeace]

I'm kind of judgmental.

 

[AmericanSamurai]

Martin Luther grieved over his most miniscule peccadilloes.

 

[RINO 72]

I love to drink to excess.
I love looking at and flirting with beautiful women.
I revel in pride.
I am extremely vain.
But most of all I check out virtually every woman I see.....

I'll be praying for you

 

[RINO 72]

I forgot to pray for my neighbors dog who just recently was diagnosed with diabetes. Felt very convicted today

 

[AndOne]

Lol!

So you're a pot head?

If only you know how far off the mark that insinuation was.....

 

[jamantc]

I sometimes am very judgmental. The problem with asking a question like this in another type forum would be that most people have been taught they don't need to worry about those type sins, it's the big ones they should be concerned about if they should be concerned at all about them. After all, for many, it's their best life now because every day is a Friday.

 

[iambren]

1 Contempt

2 Letting my eyes wander over the body of a woman too much.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

I love to drink to excess.

I love smoking tobacco too much, but not always.

I love looking at and flirting with beautiful women.

The looking at applies to most men. I've never been one to flirt much, even when I was single. I think I will likely always have a love/hate thing going on with lust.

I revel in pride.

I struggle too, but it's not a favorite or one I love, but I have caught myself enjoying it, but it used to be a much much bigger problem. I guess what I am saying is, it doesn't prevail like it used to, not in the same degrees or extent. I'd sooner be quiet, and keep my mouth shut to be honest.

I am extremely vain.

Lucky or unlucky (depending on how you look at it) for you most women are attracted to that, they often confuse it for confidence. I can be vain, but more often have a tendency to put myself down or see myself as less than, which can be sinful. How the great Doctrines of Grace have helped free me from self condemnation and false guilt!

But most of all I check out virtually every woman I see.....

That's me to an extent...but now that I am married, I can't say I love it, quite the opposite, I hate it, but old habits die hard. In addition to checking out, if I like what I see, countless times I have with my mind, have undressed those women and envisioned engaging in sex with them. Sometimes having a vivid imagination is not so good. In my heart and mind, I have been every bit the sinner as a porn star (though I would argue it is not quite the same). I could not tell you how many times I've confessed and asked God for help, and how many times I wanted to make promises I knew I could not keep. It is a sin that has jaded me I think, to an extent. If there were a number where God would stop forgiving, I surely would have surpassed it. I will say, the Lord has helped, and in numerous ways. For example, I purposely try to avoid situations where compromising faithfulness to my wife could potentially take place. If I catch a glimpse of a woman I know I would lust after, I tell myself to try and ignore, not pay attention, look the other way, whatever I have to do, and tell myself I do not want to go through with that sin in my heart, it is not worth it. I have often prayed that the Lord will keep both my wife and I faithful to one another. I'd have to say that 99% of the time, marital unfaithfulness, takes place in the heart long before it plays out in "reality". Anyway, like usual I have probably said too much. But I feel comfortable in the fact that the vast majority of men, also struggle with the sin of lust, and many have had far greater failings than I have, yet I know, but for the grace of God go I, because my flesh, like all flesh, is weak.

 

[JustAsIam77]

Everyone wanting to play like they don't have sins they cling too?

I certainly do as does everyone, however, I find it less than enlightening to air them here, what is the point exactly?

 

[gord44]

I certainly do as does everyone, however, I find it less than enlightening to air them here, what is the point exactly?

I imagine it is liberating and refreshing to admit your shortcomings. It's also humbling.

I remember once I was at a church and the pastor in front of the entire congregation told that he liked to check out women. He told about how he now avoided a certain restaurant where the waitresses wore short plaid skirts as he found he would just stare at their legs the whole time. It was incredibly refreshing to see a pastor be so candid about something like that.

 

[JustAsIam77]

I imagine it is liberating and refreshing to admit your shortcomings. It's also humbling.

I remember once I was at a church and the pastor in front of the entire congregation told that he liked to check out women. He told about how he now avoided a certain restaurant where the waitresses wore short plaid skirts as he found he would just stare at their legs the whole time. It was incredibly refreshing to see a pastor be so candid about something like that.

Thanks for your honesty.