True humility will make any sincere Christian broken before God about not being perfect, making mistakes and messing up all the time. If you don't see these things as your misery, then you are all set: you love your life (G5590) the way it is. But if you see these things as your misery and you truly want it to end, because you do love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and want to please Him above all, nobody will need to tell you anything and you will cry out to God to be SAVED from that misery and to receive a new life, even eternal life (G2222).
John 12:25
He who loves his life (G5590) will lose it, and he who hates his life (G5590) in this world will keep it for eternal life (G2222).
Mark 8:34
For whoever desires to save his life (G5590) will lose it, but whoever loses his life (G5590) for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
You must die to sin and be raised from the dead in newness of life (G2222):
Romans 6:3-11
3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death (cf. repent and be baptized - Acts 2:38)? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (G2222) 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (not sin), for they shall be filled.
See also:
The Goal of Repentance - video
Godly Sorrow Leads to Repentance
Forgiveness of Sins Is Not Something You Just Claim
Suffer The Cross To Overcome Addictions
Complete Surrender - video
Coming as you are to God does imply a changed heart
What does "by grace are you saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8) really mean?
See definitions and lists of passages using those different words for "life":
Strong's G2222 - zōē (eternal life):
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G2222
Strong's G5590 - psychē (this passing life):
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=G5590
What is the Grace of God?
Original publication date: 2017-09-12
Last modified: 2020-09-14
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