As Adam Clarke wrote, “So he that says the blood of Christ either cannot or will not cleanse us from all sin in this life, gives also the lie to his Maker, who has declared the contrary…”
The Christian life was not intended to be a desert of struggle and despair until death. Just as Bunyan's characters Christian and Hopeful arrived in the Delectable Mountains, you can--and must!--enter into the promised land with Jesus in this life!