Only when you realize that you are fighting yourself -- that Satan is not creating evil and throwing it at you, that he's only pulling out what's already inside of you (James 1:14) -- then you realize that you are not in complete control. If you are fighting yourself, obviously there is something inside of you that is resisting control. That is when you realize that you need help.
If passion for Christ does not consume me, something else will. It does no good for me to try to quell my own desires if I do not have something better to replace them with. The heart is very much like a vacuum: if you do not fill it, it will fill itself with whatever is closest to it. One way to fight it is to keep trying to pull things out of it, but that only creates more of a vacuum. A better way to stop a vaccuum is to start putting things into it. That is where Christ comes in. He gives us something clean and worthwhile to put in to fight the vacuum of selfish desires. If it were not for Him we would constantly be fighting a battle that couldn't be won. . . a vaccuum that can't be filled. Without Him, we couldn't even fight. Thank God for giving us a fighting chance!
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