I profess I love the Lord but something isn’t quite right.

[Warrior8080]

I can feel the love of the Lord but something is amiss. I feel slightly empty I don’t know if this is from sinning, the sins of the flesh or if I’m not being a good enough Christian. I want to rise. But I guess I have my own personal hell to worry about. I am worried. I still sin and it’s costing me my relationship with God. I almost feel as though God is exasperated with me. Like I am a disappointment. He loves me not of his own free will but because he has to. I am worried. Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

 

[hawkman]

Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

Yes . Read the words of Paul in Romans Chapter 9 and all of Paul's writings and letters .

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How can I overcome sin in my Christian life? What are the keys to victory over sin?

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[Lambie]

I can feel the love of the Lord but something is amiss. I feel slightly empty I don’t know if this is from sinning, the sins of the flesh or if I’m not being a good enough Christian. I want to rise. But I guess I have my own personal hell to worry about. I am worried. I still sin and it’s costing me my relationship with God. I almost feel as though God is exasperated with me. Like I am a disappointment. He loves me not of his own free will but because he has to. I am worried. Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

God loves you because Jesus died on the cross for you. How powerful is that?

You and I live in these bodies that will continue to sin and it's good that you show repentance for those sins. But the Lord loves you because that's just how He is, not because you try to control your sin. If you've been baptized then you were clothed in Jesus' righteousness, so that when God looks at you, He sees His Son with whom He's well pleased.

So fear not, for the Lord is with you.

 

[Blain DeCastro]

I can feel the love of the Lord but something is amiss. I feel slightly empty I don’t know if this is from sinning, the sins of the flesh or if I’m not being a good enough Christian. I want to rise. But I guess I have my own personal hell to worry about. I am worried. I still sin and it’s costing me my relationship with God. I almost feel as though God is exasperated with me. Like I am a disappointment. He loves me not of his own free will but because he has to. I am worried. Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

Oh my dear friend I am struggling with this as well it is a tactic of the enemy and he wants you to feel this way because if you don't understand your value in Christ you won't be able to stand in his love and rest in his mercy.

Let me make an analogy for you say I have a hundred dollar bill and I want to give it to you but I crumble it up stomp on it and now it is all bruised crumbled and stomped on but you would still take it right after all the value is the same it is still a hundred dollar bill it is just crumbled and stomped on but still worth a hundred dollars.

This is how it is with us and the father, though we may not think we are worth much though we may think we are bruised and stomped on though we may feel we exhaust him with our failings our worth to him is still the same his love for us is still the same our beauty to him is still the same

 

[Fastfredy0]

I can feel the love of the Lord but something is amiss. I feel slightly empty I don’t know if this is from sinning, the sins of the flesh or if I’m not being a good enough Christian. I want to rise. But I guess I have my own personal hell to worry about. I am worried. I still sin and it’s costing me my relationship with God. I almost feel as though God is exasperated with me. Like I am a disappointment. He loves me not of his own free will but because he has to. I am worried. Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

We all struggle to some degree.
To the extent one believes, one obeys. Disobedience is a sign of disbelief. Union with God (salvation) depends on belief. Assuming one is saved, his fellowship/communion with God depends on obedience.

Amos 3:3 “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? God cannot “communion” with evil; however, when the sinning Christian turns to God in full acknowledgment of the sin, accepting God’s estimation of it, agreement is established and restoration to fellowship is at once experienced.
Communion (abiding) depends upon agreement and agreement requires complete subjection of one to his superior; thus, it is imperative that the commandments of the one shall be kept by the other. John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

“Communion/fellowship” is maintained through cleansing via the confession of sin (1 John 1:9). This concerns the effect of a believer’s sin upon the Christian and upon God. The effect on the Christian is that he walks in darkness and the cure is walking in the light. To walk in the light is in no sense a matter of attaining to sinless perfection; that would be to become the light which God alone is. Rather, it is to be responsive to the light which the Holy Spirit puts into the heart. An attitude to confess sin the moment it is recognized which brings the Christian into moral agreement with God and the basis of renewed fellowship which is “the cleansing” of 1 John 1:9. The effect upon God is cured by the advocacy of Christ who can plead on the grounds of His sacrifice. (Note: All our sins past, present and future have been forgiven the moment a person believes. This “union” cannot be broken. Yet we continue to sin, and this disrupts our “communion” with God. Confession is the remedy.)
Sinning by the believer will not break his union with God though he has injured his communion with Him.
John Owen

 

[Lafftur]

I can feel the love of the Lord but something is amiss. I feel slightly empty I don’t know if this is from sinning, the sins of the flesh or if I’m not being a good enough Christian. I want to rise. But I guess I have my own personal hell to worry about. I am worried. I still sin and it’s costing me my relationship with God. I almost feel as though God is exasperated with me. Like I am a disappointment. He loves me not of his own free will but because he has to. I am worried. Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

Hello -

I think it's wonderful you want to be a better Christian! Sin is not fun... it ends in fear, guilt and shame and it hurst us, hurts others, and it hurts God.

We all experience that but, the good news is the more you grow and mature with God's Word the Bible and God's Holy Spirit... you will overcome little by little or a lot by a lot. Either way, you will not stay stuck in sin.... just keep pressing forward and ask God to empower you with His Holy Spirit... the Holy Spirit will teach you and give you understanding of God's Word.

Dear Heavenly Father,

I pray for Warrior8080, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Give him revelation knowledge of the relationship between the prodigal son and his father found in Luke 15:11-32... amen.

 

[Lafftur]

I can feel the love of the Lord but something is amiss. I feel slightly empty I don’t know if this is from sinning, the sins of the flesh or if I’m not being a good enough Christian. I want to rise. But I guess I have my own personal hell to worry about. I am worried. I still sin and it’s costing me my relationship with God. I almost feel as though God is exasperated with me. Like I am a disappointment. He loves me not of his own free will but because he has to. I am worried. Does the Bible teach us about sin and how to become a better Christian?

Hey Warrior8080

Here’s a song for you… we can all relate… there are mountains we climb and valleys where we fall but, God is with us and He’s the One with the plan and has promised to finish what He started in each of us…. enjoy!