Jeff -
I sinned today. I may have hurt someone's feelings by my actions, and it could potentially cost me my job, but as I was thinking about what I'd done, I started listing character flaws. I counted 31 of them and I don't think the list is complete yet.
Satan doesn't really even need to bother with me. I sin just fine all on my own.
I believe the sequence of events that each of us must go through is on these lines:
1. I understand that Our Heavenly Father first shows each of us our individual sins (each in His own time of His choosing).
2. Then He leads us to repent of each and every one of our horrid deeds (and this may include, at times, the burden to personally seek forgiveness from some of those we sinned against).
3. This is done in His timing, and one sin at a time.
4. This is always with the prerequisite need for us to forgive all those who have sinned against us - before He will completely forgive each and every one of our own sins.
5. But in all this, He is faithful, and He Graces each of us (in His time of His choosing) with the Faith of His Beloved Son - in order for us to start overcoming (and begin to conquer) each and every evil device that Satan has thrown at us.
6. His Truth (and not our own truth, or anyone else's truth) SETS each and every one of us TRULY FREE.
I hope this helps you a little.
Kind Regards.
Still Learning and Always Humbled
George.