"You told me to clean my room, but I didn't."

*Grumble grumble*
"I just can't help it. I sin all the time, and I even know better!"
*Grumble grumble*

Seriously? If we are God's children, this is an absolutely ridiculous idea. Imagine telling this to your parents....

"Mom, I just can't help it. I disobey you all the time -- you told me to run to the grocery store for you, and I got in the car and drove to the videogame store and never did pick up your groceries -- I even knew better!"

or,

"Dad, I know you told me to clean my room, but I didn't. Instead, I called my friend up and went over to his house to hang out. I couldn't help it!"

It wouldn't fly. You might manage to say it...before you got taken to the woodshed and punished for being flagrantly disobedient and rebellious.

God isn't an unreasonable Father. We have no reason to complain about what He asks us to do, and we have no reason not to do what He asks us to do.

Don't tell me that you can have sin in your life and still be pleasing to God. It's not true.

"And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him." (I John 3:5-6)