AS CHRISTIANS

WHY ARE WE PRONE TO WANDER, AND TO SIN?

This was how Susannah Wesley defined
"SIN" to her young son, John Wesley:

"If you would judge of the lawfulness
or the unlawfulness of pleasure,
then take this simple rule:
Whatever weakens your reason,
impairs the tenderness of your conscience,
obscures your sense of GOD,
and takes off the relish of spiritual things---
in short, whatever increases the strength and authority
of your body over your mind,
that thing is sin to you
however innocent it may be in itself.
.....Susanna Wesley [Letter, June 8, 1725] 

Proverbs 28:13 ESV
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Romans 3:10-20 ESV
as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one;
[11] no one understands; no one seeks for God.
[12] All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good, not even one."
[13] "Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive."
"The venom of asps is under their lips."
[14] "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
[15] "Their feet are swift to shed blood;
[16] in their paths are ruin and misery,
[17] and the way of peace they have not known."
[18] "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
[19] Now we know that whatever the law says
it speaks to those who are under the law,
so that every mouth may be stopped, and the
whole world may be held accountable to God.
[20] For by works of the law no human being will be justified
in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.