I think I just need to read the bible about this one. I still do not understand. God wants us to be perfect and there is no excuse of sin. Maybe I do not understand. I always see humans as works in progress. I would not expect a gossiper to miraculously completely stop gossiping. There is no excuse for sin, but realistically, it happens. Has one person gone through life without sinning entirely? I always think of how short life is. Who has time to self-monitor every tiny little thing they do and say wrong? AGAIN, NO EXCUSE FOR SIN. We have work, we have school, we become stressed out, we are not always in the highest of moods. I struggle with cussing. Of course, there are some days, I do not say a bad word at all or maybe say one bad word. Eventually, one day I will never use foul language again. Then I wonder, well what if I die tomorrow. You never know when you will die. There is no guarantee I will reach my ideal self before I die. I understand that correction, striving to be perfect is important, and I think it is important to realize people do not become saints overnight either.
By his disobedience Adam spurned God, effectively separating himself and humanity from Him, no longer subjugated to Him in the moral and spiritual spheres. But Jesus tells us a simple truth, a very critical truth of the New Covenant:
“Apart from Me you can do nothing”. Man’s justice, holiness, wholeness, integrity, and happiness depend on this relationship with God, which Jesus came to heal, reconciling man with his Creator. God promises, by the New Covenant prophesy in Jer 31, to do a work in us, of placing His Law on our minds and writing them in our hearts, a process involving
time, by which we come to be justified/sanctified/perfected as we cooperate but continue to struggle with our own wills, with coming to value God and His love over lesser, created things, over that which attracts us to the slavery of sin. Man’s will is aligned with God’s-our justice is complete-as we come to love Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength and our neighbor as ourselves. In this the greatest commandments are fulfilled and therefore the Law is fulfilled-even if purgatory may well be a part of the process. These are from the Catechism:
**310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better. But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. In God’s plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection.
302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:
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By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, "reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well". For "all are open and laid bare to his eyes", even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.
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He wants us to live a life as holy as we can, as opposed to just living however and doing whatever no matter how wrong it is and just giving in to every sin.