There and Back Again

Why is it that I always and continually struggle with the same damn things? This is a source of immense and continual frustration to me (in case you hadn't figured that out). The same wrong thoughts keep creeping into my mind and the same wrong actions and words keep coming out. It's not that I'm not fighting against my sin, it's that I feel like I'm losing. I feel like I get victory for a little while, then get hit and sink back down into the pit. I get "there", then bounce back again...

I suppose there should be two more paragraphs to this (as is my normal style), but what is there to say? Yes, I know God will complete His work in me (Philippians 1:6). Yes, I know that we all struggle with this (Romans 7:19-20). But what about the times where that just doesn't make me feel any better or any less helpless? What am I supposed to do then?

Luke