Such a simple truth. This is something I pray for ALL the time, that I would completely hate my sin. I think that so often, we get complacent with our sin, and we tell our friends to pray for us because we are “struggling” with something. NO! My sin nailed Jesus to the cross! How in the world could I ever become complacent about it, and call it a “struggle”?! I pray that God would constantly reveal to me my sin. Sometimes he does it in nice ways through the loving rebuke of a friend, and other times, I get caught in my sin, and it hurts! But God does that to sanctify me! And if I truly am living for him, I should be BEGGING him to reveal to me my sin daily. And when he does, I need to take that sin, be completely and utterly DISGUSTED by it, and kill it and make sure it never creeps up again. THAT is true repentance, and true sanctification! If we don’t feel that way about our sin, where we HATE it so much, then we don’t understand God, and we don’t understand the gospel.
God, give me a HATRED of my sin! Help me to not allow anything to enter my mind that is not of you. Reveal to me CONSTANTLY my sin, and help me to hate it and fight it every day of my life, so that I can present myself to you HOLY and BLAMELESS on the day that you return!
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