We have taken on the sinful nature of Adam. We are swimming in sin. It is easy to go along with the tide of sin. The whole world is doing it, satan is whispering in our ears to do it, and it is our nature to do it because we are born in sin and shaped in iniquity. Yet still Christ expects us to swim against the tide. Jesus wants us to be like salmon swimming upstream. Imagine the water of the river flowing rapidly one way, and the salmon fish is blissfully swimming the other way. The thing to always remember, is that God does not ask you to do the impossible.
