As you go on living the righteous life and practicing it with all your might and energy and all your time and everything else, you will find that the process that went on before in which you went from bad to worse and became viler and viler is entirely reversed. You will become cleaner and cleaner and purer and purer and holier and holier, and more and more conformed to the image of the Son of God.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Nobody stands still. Sin begets sin — it is cancer, reproducing itself. But righteousness begets holiness. The same momentum that once dragged you down now carries you up. Not because you earned the reversal. Because Someone reversed the direction. You were poured into a mold. Not the one you chose — the one that chose you. And the result is not trying harder. It is becoming cleaner, purer, holier — not by your own effort, but because the One who re-poured you doesn’t stop working.
Romans 6:19 — “I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”