Why don't YOU sin?

I am in a Bible Study at Dr. Burke's and we are reading William Gurnall's The Christian in Complete Armour. You've got to love those Puritans. It's good stuff on Ephesians 6 and combatting sin. Anyway, in one of the chapters, Gurnall makes the statement: "Others wrestle with sin, but they do not hate it, and therefore they are favourable to it, and seek not the life of sin as their deadly enemy."

Think about some of the sins with which you continually struggle. Do you truly hate them? Do you sin for what it is- a lie about the sufficiency and love of God and as offensive to him? I find that often I refrain from sin simply because I know in my head that it isn't right or because I want to hold up my reputation with other people. Other times, we don't sin because it isn't convenient or we just don't find it in our particular taste or interest. But sin is more than breaking a rule, it is an attitude about God. Gurnall strikes a very human chord, because if we still find pleasure in sin, then we are still subject to it and we are not letting Christ win the victory over that sin in our lives. We must view sin with hatred and replace the pleasure of sin with the vastly infinite pleasure of knowing and loving and being loved by God, our Creator and Savior. If we don't see what the life of sin is, namely as our own moral independence decrying the overflowing nature of Christ the image of God, then we struggle in vain. Once we view sin as our "deadly enemy," then we can begin its mortification in our lives. Our fight with sin can neither be passive nor complacent.

So why don't you sin?