When we are tempted to sin, Satan’s primary strategy is to convince us that it’s not a big deal, and that God won’t really care if we do it.
After we’ve given in to the temptation and committed the sin, Satan flips the script. Now his chief aim is to make us believe that what we’ve done is so bad, God no longer wants anything to do with us.
This is why your first inclination after a spiritual failure is to run and hide from God. The last thing you feel like doing after blowing it is approaching God through prayer, or through any other means, for that matter.
But a thorough confidence in the grace of God and the power of the cross can help you turn the tables, and beat the enemy at his own game.
Instead of allowing your sin to drive you away from God, let it drive you to Him in repentance.
Because it’s precisely in those moments of failure that you need God’s presence the most.
After a spiritual defeat, don’t wait for the feelings of guilt and shame to go away before you go to the Lord. Receive the guilt as a gift to remind you how deep your need for God’s mercy really is. After all, you’re no more worthy of His love on your best day than you are on your worst.
