If you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.
Genesis 4:7 NIV
The struggle is real.
Ever since the episode with the serpent promising we can be like God ourselves, the primary struggle of mankind was set in motion.
Though never the original plan, we now must make daily choices to do the right thing or the wrong thing. Moreover, to trust God or to trust in things otherworldly.
We get caught up in our personal tallies trying to accrue more right decisions than wrong ones thereby remaining in God’s good graces.
The New Testament Jesus came to undo such tallies and gave his life to compute and confer a new solution.
Knowledge of good and evil, combined with a nature now inclined to choose evil after the fall in the garden, will never add up in our favor.
Believe in Jesus and the perfect solution of God, and your sin column will be erased back into alignment with God our creator.
The struggle is real, but so is Jesus.
Act as if your life depends on it because it actually does.