When I was growing up in the church I remember being told numerous times that if you asked Jesus into your heart you would go to heaven. If you wanted to be sold out to Jesus you would need to be sanctified. If you were you wouldn’t be tempted to sin anymore. If you did sin then you weren’t actually sanctified. I lived with this confusion for quite some years.

I am no scholar in this theological field, but I do have years of experience living out the christian life. There is no place in the bible where I’ve found any promise that one can become sinless this side of death. I’m pretty certain that man added this in hopes it could be true. Instead of this, what I’ve found to be very true is that each day I can commit to living for Jesus. The truth of man’s humanness is that we can only be present in the day we are in. So, the freedom God promises us is found in the present day. God told Moses to call Him I AM. I’ve written about this numerous times, but the reality of it takes a while to truly sink in for me. I lived a long time wanting to be done with sin once and for all. Taking this one day at a time is so much more freeing. This we all can do with the help of one another. We just need to follow what God’s Word tells us in James 5:16. Reaching out to one another is an assurance of support and freedom. This I can also commit to and I want to. And this–this is found in God’s Word.