I just find it funny that when people screw up, the first thing they do is run to God. I know myself that when I screw up and feel guilty about something, that first thing I do is run to God and promise Him that I'll never do it again. Maybe throw on a worship song or something. Then the next day or the next week or the next month when the guilt has gone away and the temptation creeps up again, why not run to God then?


It's not that I don't think we should run to God when we mess up. Thats the best thing you can do. But I believe that true repentence comes out of a move of the Spirit, not of guilt or regret, which is of the flesh.

14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.