Who do you have the most frequent conversation with? It’s not your spouse. It’s not your best friend. It’s yourself! We are constantly either listening to ourselves or talking to ourselves. The fiercest argument we have is not with those outside. It’s with what’s in us.

“But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.” Romans 7:23

Several times a day, a voice in me says to me, “Look at how miserable you are. Don’t you think you deserve better? Why don’t you tell all these people off and be free? Stop living for others! What did that get you anyway? It’s time you get what you want for a change…”

That’s the “me” I’m fighting against. It’s the old me. It’s the sinful me that hasn’t died yet. And I suppose he will never die until God frees me from him in physical death.

I desperately want to be free from that other me. How happy and free would I be if that other me wasn’t there! And that is one reason I’m looking forward to heaven. When I won’t have to fight any more. There will be no feeling of inferiority, self-condemnation, envy, emptiness, depression, comparing…

But until then, we must fight. If we are not fighting with ourselves, that means we have given up and our old self has won. That is death! Eternal death! Even though it is tiring to fight, we must keep fighting. The victory is guaranteed. The only requirement is that we keep fighting. As long as we are fighting, God will send reinforcement to annihilate the foe, which is us! But if we ever stop fighting, that means we have joined our enemy and we have made ourselves God’s enemy.

Fight your lust.

Fight your envy.

Fight your self-pity

Fight your laziness.

Fight your addiction.

Fight!!!

PH