Sinning, no matter the degree, is like breathing, eating, and drinking. It must be. Look around the world. Everywhere, every day, every minute, statistics tells us that sin is committed.

Why is that so when righteous purity and cleanliness are attainable? It’s so, because it is natural. Sin is what we’re born with. It comes first, not God’s righteousness. In this physical realm, it is the path of least resistance. It’s easy to apply without it even having been learned.

We accede to sin because we still reside in these earthly tents of flesh and don’t always subject ourselves to working with the Lord. We feel and obey sin’s natural impulse, which is a law in the members of our bodies.

That makes it easy for the great adversary. Having brought sin into our world, and aware of its power to evolve on its own, Satan really just sits back and enjoys. The world naturally serves his purposes. The only effort he expends to make things worse is directed towards a small portion of the world’s population. That would be those who have left his camp and joined God’s.

On the other hand, the Lord has to overcome the five senses of the physical tent; tangible senses that are naturally attracted to things that are other than spiritual and godly.

This even applies to us Christians who are regularly referred to as new creatures, once placed in Christ. But to me, being a new creature doesn’t mean that all of a sudden we’re these new spiritual beings, entirely. I believe it to mean, as I’ve said elsewhere, that presently we’re a new race of humans containing two natures—the carnal and the divine. It is only after being glorified that our newness will consist entirely of the divine righteousness of God.

As for now, though, we still reside in corrupt earthly flesh that’s at war with the divine. As such, God has to go against our foremost interest; the thing that we’re most concerned about—self. So He cannot just sit back. He constantly reaches out with the power of His grace in order to help us overcome the carnal.

But that grace is only effective if we yield to its power; if we work in tandem with God. If we do that, that then will enable Him to carry out His will, which is not to clean up or to improve on the carnal, but to eradicate and replace it altogether.

This shows that God has the harder job. He does work the hardest, having begun such a difficult task by sacrificing His Son.