I was reading back entries in my journal, in fact, way back, and I noticed something that I know to be true, but I forgot. The things that I used to write down as sins and weaknesses that I was struggling with, I no longer write them down, they are a thing of the past. Now I write about new struggles. They were a problem in the past, I just didn’t notice them much because I was dealing with bigger and badder flaws and sins. When I started getting those under control a whole new crop of problems, character flaws, weaknesses, and sins popped into view. Now I write about these new issues, groaning to myself and God over my lack of self-control, wondering why I am growing so slow. One of the characteristics of growing in spiritual maturity is that our sensitivity to sin increases so I notice things now that I used to be blind to. It is like peeling an onion, one layer at a time. Maybe before I die I will get down to the bottom layer. The hard thing to think about is, I don’t know how many more layers there are, I could just be getting started, oh my, I better keep at this pressing on to maturity thing, and I better keep examining my life and confessing all known sin to God.