Sin and Age, practically speaking

I had an additional thought, in this regard.  As I alluded to near the end of the previous post, a sinless life is an impossibility for us, as we are all fallen children of Adam.  As an incredible blessing, we, when are baptized into the name of the Trinity, we become children of God.
Practically speaking, what this means, is that from birth to the time of our baptism, we are building up and increasing our sin.  The life, death and resurrection of Christ, cleanses us from that sin.  Unfortunately though, we continue to sin after that and need continued forgiveness.  We receive this through confession and repentance.
Because we do not start out sinless and because we continually add to the list of sins in our life, everything we think, say and do is, unfortunately, tainted by sin.  So regardless of how we would "like" to be, "like" to think and "like" to speak, all of our words, thoughts and actions are influenced by sin.  So we must approach life with this in the forefront of our minds.  This means that we should never be lax or trustworthy of our thoughts, words or actions.  We need to be our own worst critic.
This is where having a spiritual father is so valuable.  When we have someone who is older, wiser and godlier than we, our direction is better and our motivations will be in check.  As someone once said, "A man that has himself as his own leader, has a leader who is a fool."