Ok so I’m way over caffeinated right now thanks to the coffee lady here at work giving me some extra shots of espresso for no apparent reason… (I’m not complaining lol) but yeah so I was thinking about my sanctification process and how it’s been going and I realized how much easier it is than I had ever before thought.
When we are trying to live a holy life it is us vs. us. So it’s the new us fighting against our old habits and our old ways of thinking/doing things.
As Christians we know what it is we are supposed to do and what it is we are supposed to want but when that doesn’t line up with what we really want or really want to do we have conflict within ourselves. Since we are exactly as strong as ourselves we could only win this internal battle, at best, about 50% of the time.
Now, we have outside influences of society, peer pressure, angelic, demonic and so on which all seek to influence us in one direction or another but ultimately we can only blame ourselves because our actions are our own.
So how does one go about aligning their life so that they are constantly winning the battle against themselves? Simple; you ask God to change your desires. Ask Him to align your heart with His. Then you no longer need to fight your desires because your desires are already that which is good and right. I do this and suddenly I’m no longer in a battle I can win only half the time. I’m no longer in any sort of battle for that matter.
I know this is not as epic as fighting your way through a monumental battle and coming out (potentially) victorious but I’d much rather have the guaranteed victory which I can take no credit for than the loss which I must claim full responsibility.
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