A
person does not need to be problem free in order to accept Jesus into
his/her life. We all have problems and if we waited until problems do
not exist than that will be never. No one goes problem free and in
fact it is during these times when one is in need of Him even more.
God uses circumstances like these to bring us closer to Him not
further away.
Ungodly habits and addictions come about when a
person is lost and confused. They are in need of help and Satan
lures them with unhealthy lifestyles and substances to make them
think they need them in order to cope.
Once, again. you never
know when your last day on earth will be, are you willing to go
another day not knowing Christ when faced with the misfortune of
spending the rest of eternity burning in a lake of fire?
God
knows what you are going through and also knows that you can not just
say forgive me, then a switch is turned off and you will be
problem/addiction free. He knows you will need to work on your
problem and wants you to help you through it. In fact when you accept
Jesus into your life, He fills you with the power of the Holy Spirit
and it enables you to step by step overcome any habit or addiction
that controls you.
Scriptures Showing God Can Help:
"Come
now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be
as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye
shall eat the good of the land:" - Isaiah
1:18-19
"For I will be merciful to
their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the
first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish
away." - Hebrews 8:12-13
"This
is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds
will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no
more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And
having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
- Hebrews 10:16-22
