WHERE DO I FIND HELP!!!

ROMANS 3:23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD

All have sinned?? Who me?

But Lord, I went to church. I donated money too.

I’ve been helpful at home. I appreciate my wife and kids!

1 JOHN 1:10 IF WE CLAIM WE HAVE NOT SINNED, WE MAKE HIM OUT TO BE A LIAR AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN US

But I have been looking for ways to serve the Lord.

I thought about visiting my aunt in the nursing home.

I could call my brother who I haven’t seen or talked to in a year.

I’ve been mad at a friend for a long time. Do I need to ask for forgiveness?

JAMES 4:17 IF ANYONE, THEN, KNOWS THE GOOD THEY OUGHT TO DO AND DOESN’T DO IT, IT IS SIN FOR THEM.

So how do we avoid and prevent sin?

Here is a quotation from a daily devotional I read by Phillip Tripp:

So, we all need help. It comes to us in the gift of God’s Word. Empowered by the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit, it is the universe’s most accurate mirror. Stand in front of it and you will see yourself as you really are. The diagnostic accuracy of the Bible is perfect. And because its diagnosis of your true condition, your true need, is always accurate, the Word of God is able to offer the only reliable cure for your condition. You don’t need to be afraid of all the dark things you don’t see in yourself, but which Scripture reveals about you, because all of those dark things have been covered by and defeated by the powerful grace that is yours in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

HEBREWS 4:12 FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND ACTIVE AND SHARPER THAN A TWO-EDGED SWORD, IT PENETRATES DIVIDING SOUL AND SPIRIT, JOINTS AND MARROW; IT JUDGES THE THOUGHTS AND ATTITUDES OF THE HEART