Why Do Christians Fail to Walk by Faith?
Christians routinely stumble in their walk with God. And, just as routinely, we utter a jingoistic platitude of being “only human” or some other such declaration as an excuse. But brethren, we must take responsibility for our failures. We own those failures. Here’s a conclusion that probably ought to be numbered as well: Every Christian who falls in lust chose to do it. It was not an accident. It was an intentional choice, an act for which there is no excuse. We can make any number of excuses for our failures of the flesh, but ultimately, there is no excuse, since God has made a way of escape, a way for us to not habitually live in the flesh and do the deeds of the flesh. We have been commanded to deaden, or put to death, or as the King James version says, to “mortify” the flesh (see Col. 3:5). Certainly that is possible to do, else it would not be commanded. The Lack of Faith Christians stumble because of a lack of faith. Peter, when walking on the water, suddenly sank. When Jesus plu
