We’re a bit like a missile fired at a target: we’re aiming at holiness and progressing towards heaven. As a missile heads off towards its target, the wind, weather, atmospheric pressure and turbulence cause it to keep deviating off course but the in-built homing device keeps tracking, making adjustments and bringing the missile back inline. Our in-built homing device is the Holy Spirit: When we’re convicted of sin and become remorseful, we repent, confess and seek God’s forgiveness: we turn away from our sin and turn back to Christ again and again. The thing is the more established the missile gets towards its target the less it deviates off course. Same with us, as we progress in the Christian life, as we mature in our faith and grow in knowledge and grace and Christ-likeness – we never become SINLESS, but we do SIN LESS. To paraphrase what John Newton once said: ‘I am not the man I should be. I am not the man I could be. But I am not the man I once was. And by the grace of God I am not the man I one day will be!’