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ACCIDENTAL SIN

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Hi dear friends, at present I am reading a book by Joyce Meyer entitled :Approval Addiction.
I would like to share this passage with you because I find this happens to me quite often too.

I like to put it this way:I used to be a full-time sinner, and once in a while I accidentally slipped up and did something right. But now...... I concentrate on being a full-time obedient child of God, but still make mistakes, but not nearly as many....There are times when I accidentally make mistakes, but it is not the desire of my heart to do wrong. I did not deliberately, knowingly commit sin. I do not habitually sin. ....but I do know that the attitude of my heart is right.

I can be having an absolutely wonderful day, feeling very close to the Lord and quite spiritual. Then my husband comes home and says he does not care for the outfit I am wearing, and I suddenly become angry and defensive, telling him everything I don't like about him either. I don't intend for that to happen; in fact, I plan to be very sweet and submissive when he comes home. But, as Paul said in Romans 7, the things I want to do, I don't do, and the things I don't want to do, I end up doing. I am so glad God sees our hearts and not our sins!

I am so glad I read this because Joyce Meyer continues to say that we are not to fellowship with God and at the same time dwell on our mistakes. But instead meditate on God's grace and His willingness to forgive us will indeed strengthen us.
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