Morbid Anatomy: The Root of Sin

You can't fight the sin problem in your life effectively unless you understand the root cause of that sin. If you want to get to the bottom of the problem so you can have lasting change, here are some questions to ask yourself:
• What wrong decisions led to the sin, and what inclinations of your heart led you to decide that way?
• What were your motives? What feelings and emotions led to you being vulnerable to the temptation you fell to?
• What thought patterns resulted in those emotions?
• What perspectives did you have that led to sinful reactions?
• What sinful attitudes or desires caused you to look at things from those perspectives?
• And what caused those attitudes? What was the origin of the desires (all desires come either from God or from the world—1 John 2:16)?
• What is your heart in love with that it should hate?
• What is your heart apathetic about that it should love?
• What were you hoping in?
• What were you trusting?
• What were you seeking?
• What wrong beliefs are underneath all this?