We are fixated on victory, on winning against this or that sin, etc. God is fixated on obedience.
God has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds, a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are
I do not understand the mystery of grace. Only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
Obedience brings the breakthrough.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction. Psalm 1:6 NIV Sometimes I think