When being a Christian is like being an ant!

Col 2:11 KJV "In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:"

Rom 8:20 KJV "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly..." Striving against sin can be like the ant trying to climb out of a indentation in the sand dune; it is very precarious and he has to progress carefully and just when you think he has reached the top and will escape then the unstable ground gives way and he tumbles all the way to the bottom again. For many, this is the normal everyday Christian experience The reason this is so is that the heart itself is sinful, it wants to do the wrong thing and to go the wrong way; only as Christ comes forth in us in a greater measure and gives us holy desires (a truly transformed heart desires holiness) can we beat this cycle (Col 2:6). The traction we need in order to get ahead of this vicious process is a circumcised heart. It all begins in the desire realm, the desire to do the right thing, the holy thing, this needs to exceed the desire to sin. We cascade down to the bottom of the dune as it were because our foundation is still on sin, the core of our heart is still sinful and bent on sinning. However, once the operation of God is completed in us (Romans 6:6) our very desires are changed and we have the traction to get out of sin.

Rom 6:12 KJV "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof."

Rom 6:16-22 KJV "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."

This cycle can be broken if we begin to seriously cry out to God to meet with us in this realm of desires. There are practical things we can do (Study His Word, Prayer, Seeking His face, etc...) but the operation is of God and the Holy Spirit, let's cry out afresh to be truly changed at the desire level!