The Struggle Is Real
26 Mar 2026 · 2 min
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When you keep falling into the same sin, guilt makes you wonder if the Holy Spirit is even there. But the struggle itself is proof God is present. If the Spirit were gone, you wouldn't fight back at all.
When you keep falling into the same sin, guilt makes you wonder if the Holy Spirit is even there. But the struggle itself is proof God is present. If the Spirit were gone, you wouldn't fight back at all.
Maybe you felt discouraged because you repeat a certain mistake. And I'm not talking about just giving into it and saying, well, this is the way it is. Maybe you're discouraged because you tell yourself, I'm not going to go there again, I'm not going to do that again, I'm not going to think that again, I'm not going to say that again, I'm not going to feel that attitude again. But then you find yourself back in that place anyway. And what begins to happen now is guilt and shame begin to creep in. And now you begin to wonder, well, does the Holy Spirit even reside in me? I want you to think about it this way and Thinking about it this way actually really helped me, and I began to see breakthrough after breakthrough after breakthrough. So whenever you're discouraged by your sinful mistake and you begin to question your identity in Christ, you begin to question whether or not you have the Holy Spirit, I want you to ask this question: Who or what is it within me that is fighting against the sinful nature? So yeah, we understand there's a sinful nature. There are certain cravings that arise, and we're trying to do our best to resist those cravings. But ask yourself, who is resisting that craving? What is that voice within you saying, no, I don't want to go there? No, I don't want to do that. No, I don't want What is that resistance against that wrongdoing? You see, the very fact that you're struggling is proof not that God has abandoned you, not that you don't have the Holy Spirit. The very fact that you're struggling is proof that the Holy Spirit lives in you. How can that be? Well, think about it. If the Holy Spirit didn't live within you, you wouldn't be struggling with sin. You would just be sinning, giving into it. No conviction, no angst over it, no attempt to be rid of it. You would just completely give yourself over to that sin. So the very fact that there is a battle means that there's one in you who is battling against sin. Against it. Sin is fighting, but also the Holy Spirit is fighting on your behalf.
