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Our wills are guided by our desires, not the other way around. If we desire only evil, we will only do what is evil.

An unregenerate heart will do nothing else but choose evil towards God for every imagination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually (Gen 6:5) and though our wills are guided by our desires, which come forth from the heart, we must remember that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer 17:9). Thus, it is not IF we desire evil, it is that we ALWAYS desire evil in the unregenerate heart (even if it chooses a good deed it is chosen from an evil intent...). Even in the heart of the regenerate, where the will is freer--for it can now choose for God in all things, it still has an attachment of sin to it, thus we always are need need of grace, for where sin abounded, grace did much more abound (Rom 5:20). It is only in Christ that our wills are free to chose for God and even here we fall short. But, cheer up, you are a far worse sinner than you ever thought you were and IN CHRIST, you are far more forgiven than you could possibly even imagine.


Reformed and Always Reforming,