Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
One of the biggest problems that we have is that we are always thinking of bad things. When we grow up we see bad things, we hear bad things and we have bad things happen to us; so naturally we also get involved with bad things and then our thoughts always seem to go back to those bad things… even when we are trying to be good, those bad thoughts still come back…
Those bad thoughts influence our lives! The more we think of them the more we are likely to give in to them. We need God with us so that we can break free of those continual bad thoughts…