An encouraging thought on my fight against sin, because I keep going back and new ones keep coming up and I get really tired and bogged down at times thinking the Cross missed a few things; I know my sin is not unique, but it sometimes feels like God cannot handle it (I know it sounds preposterous) but I do think that sometimes so...

"Our fight against sin is noble and good, but make no mistake: we are not fighting to be righteous. We already are righteous. We are simply learning to live outwardly like the person we are inwardly." Judah Smith
Because we died to sin in Christ and are resurrected in Him.
Because the old is gone and the new has come, we are new (righteous) creations with infections/parasites/invaders (sin)
Because we are Christ's and if He is light and in Him is no darkness, yet He is aligned to me then I am not a wicked sinner who is sometimes good (though it looks that way), I am actually the converse, a righteous man who is sometimes sinful.
It does feel like semantics, brain training, and wordplay, but I get it and I know it is not.