The beauty of Christianity is that every day is a new beginning. God forgives and off we go to give living righteously another shot. We blow it again and the cycle is repeated. It seems like we just keep on sinning, and we do, but every day we sin a little bit less, we grow a little bit more holy, it seems like our growth is slow, it is, but we grow.

There comes a point that our growth picks up speed if we persevere in our pursuit of holiness, the graph begins to turn upward and continues to do so as we exert great effort and diligence to become more and more like Jesus. We can sense the increase in our souls, and as we do our motivation picks up because our pursuit no longer seems like we are chasing our tail.

One of the reasons our growth rate accelerates is because as we grow in holiness our conscience becomes more sensitive, we experience more conviction for our sin, and the number of sins we are convicted about increases.

This increase in the sensitivity of our conscience will result in godly sorrow for our sins.

2 Corinthians 7:9-10 . . .you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, , , ,For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces repentance. . .

Godly sorrow results in repentance which is a growing effort to grow, change, conqueror sin, and become holy.