He discovered that sin was present in his own heart, even after he became a Christian. He found himself caught up in this terrible struggle. With his mind he understood the high calling of God to do the right thing, but there was this baser side of him that seemed to gain control on occasion, and he felt powerless to master that inner base self at times. Once a little boy and his mother were talking one Sunday morning. We have yet to fully comprehend just how bad the problem of sin is in our lives.
Sin is a pervasive problem in our lives.
The Bible says that you and I have a desperate need for forgiveness. The problem of sin so affects our lives and our souls that without forgiveness, we have no hope of fellowship with God. Alienation is the result of sin in our lives, and it dominates our existence. We are alienated from God, we are alienated from others, and we are even alienated from ourselves. Scripture teaches that the reason Christ came to earth was to pay the penalty for our sin with or through His death on the cross and thereby to deal with the alienation we all experience in this life.