Only a Sinner

Another month is come to a close; I have the same complaints to make as at the beginning. I have been chargeable with many sins of the heart and many also in word and action. I have made no progress in the ways of holiness and gained no advantage over the evil propensities of my heart. I have indeed formed many resolutions to walk more circumspectly, to be more constant and fervent in the private and public exercises of faith but I have failed in the performance and fallen into lukewarmness and indifference. I have been of but little use in my family, in the world, or in the church of God. My life has been one continued scene of imperfection and sin. If I had done all that the law of God requires, I should still have been ‘an unprofitable servant.’ What, then, shall I say of myself since I have come so very far short of its righteous demands in every particular? I am a sinner but blessed be God for Jesus Christ.