... Cry out for Discernment ... -- Proverbs 2:3a (NKJV)
You just HAD to push THAT button, didn't ya'?!?!
It's in your nature to break the rules!
Adam & Eve had only a couple simple rules to follow and, like you, they just had to break one of them!
Shackled by Pride / Enslaved to Sin
It was handed down to us by our first parents, Adam & Eve, and it's in our nature to exalt self and follow our passions, no matter what God has to say against it. Our hearts are bent on doing wrong; the world is filled with slogans and philosophies that are meant to draw out our worst passions & desires; and Satan works around the clock to tempt our hearts to indulge in all the world has to offer. It's a lose-lose-lose scenario with NO way for us to escape it.
Judgment Day is Coming
The Creator of the universe is perfectly righteous, holy, and just. While He allows people to live in their sin, He also has a day set aside after death where EVERY person will be judged for every sinful thought, word, and deed, REGARDLESS of any good a person thinks he or she has done to outweigh any and all sin committed. An insurmountable penalty MUST be paid for a life on earth full of pride, selfishness, and pursuits of your lusts & passions.
God's Plan of Deliverance
Praise be to God that He is also the God of mercy, compassion & forgiveness! He sent His Son, second person in the Godhead, to become a man to live the sinless, obedient life that we could never live on our own. He obeyed and fulfilled every law and rule God ever instituted; then, He died in OUR place on the cross, charged with OUR sins, though He never knew sin in His life. He paid our penalty to God the Father, and His payment was approved by His resurrection from the dead, defeating death and sin by rising to a new life, spent for eternity in heaven. If we turn from our sins (repentance), asking the Father to forgive us for the multitude of sins we've committed against the Supreme Lord & King of the universe, believing ALONE in what Jesus did in His life (sinless obedience) and in His death (substitutionary atonement), we will be saved from God's wrath that is to come in an eternity of suffering in the burning place of eternal fire, called the Lake of Fire, for all those who have sinned against the holy God, Who cannot ever countenance sin being in His presence. But now that sins have been atoned for through Jesus and His finished work, we can enter into heaven through Jesus Christ ALONE. He is the ONLY way to an eternity with the Father and in His dwelling place of heaven. Today is the day that you can leave your life of rebellion and sin by turning to the One who lived the life you couldn't and gave His life in our place.
Cry out to God for mercy and forgiveness. He is ready to forgive those who come to Him with a humble and contrite heart.