QUOTE : In the same way, we preach the already-not-yet of the Kingdom in regards to sexuality. I know of people who have seen God work dramatically in the area of their sexual desires. But for others, God allows people to struggle so that they can be a testimony to God’s sustaining grace in struggle. It seems that the latter is actually God’s normal way. John Newton, the writer of “Amazing Grace,” came to this realization late in his life, after getting frustrated by seeing the same sins attack him in his eighties that had plagued him in his twenties. He came to see that God allows us to continue struggling with indwelling sin to convince us—until our dying breath—of our desperate need for grace. Christian growth this side of heaven is not getting to a point where you don’t feel like you need grace anymore (which is how most of us think of Christian growth). Christian growth is becoming more intimately aware of how desperately we need grace.