While I understand the concept of repenting of ones sins and trying to do better, i also understand that, as a human, no matter how hard I try, or how good my intentions, i cannot go through a day without some sort of sinful behavior. Even those who were in direct contact with Jesus had their issues - Paul lamented that he kept doing the things he knew were wrong and could not do the things that he knew were right. I praise God daily for His Love and His Gift of Grace - I believe Him when, via Jeremiah in the Old Covenant, He told us, "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Jesus hung out with those who needed Him and I doubt very much He would deny them the opportunity to commune with Him because of the sins that required His sacrifice - I have trouble with a religious tenet that makes distinctions/expectations conformity that He did not.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Sin certainly is persistent, isn’t it? But one must seriously INTEND not to sin again, not to continue in habitual sin, and one must confess and repent with each fall, and keep on, aided by grace, struggling. Struggle is good.
We can surely with patience and humility, by gradual stages, reliant on the Lord’s strength, make progress. I see it in others. I hope someday to see it in myself.