Devotional Though for 12/3/08

From the "Salvation Army Orders and Regulations for Soldiers, 1950"

Am I habitually guilty of any known sin? Do I practice or allow in any thought, word or deed which I know to be wrong?

It's not the sort of question you can reply to with a shrug. I may not be sure where to start, but I'd better start somewhere. So I answer the question in my prayer with God and ask first for forgiveness, and secondly for sanctification.
There is a danger in the moderate and easy righteousness of the personally virtuous man. It is the danger that he will take his sin too lightly, that he will fail to get exercised about it.
Lord, help me to get upset about the sin in my life. Help me to make full confession and give me the faith that overcomes the world and aspires to glory.

1 John 5:18 (ESV) We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.