Romans 7:18-20 (18)For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. (19)For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. (20)Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.(ESV)
Becoming a Christian does not automatically make someone perfect. It doesn’t remove the potential for sin. It doesn’t mean that they are always going to do the right thing.
Here’s the controversial opinion part, becoming Christian doesn’t even make a person a good person.
Our sin nature wants us to put everything on fake pedestals because it’s fun to see those pedestals get toppled. It reinforces the notion that we can’t or don’t need to improve or do better. Anything that gets placed on the pedestals of public judgement is set up for failure. Society requires it, demands it, and will do anything to make sure it happens.
If something or someone is ever put on the pedestal and society can’t tear it down, that would mean that society would have to improve. This is the very reason why Jesus was rejected, which is the reason salvation was made available to gentiles.
Our sin nature forces us to reject or try to destroy anything that reminds us of the fact that we even have a sin nature.
Non-Christians, or non-believers, do not recognize this battle and often live under the false belief that being Christian instantly makes someone perfect. Then, after looking at a few Christians, they come to the conclusion that Christianity has to be false because one assumption feeds another.
It’s vital that Christians normalize the notion that we still struggle with the same things we did before we began to follow Christ. We owe it to ourselves and others to stop wearing masks and pretending that everything is ok.
It’s ok to not be ok.
Walking With Christ 
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