My Greatest Enemy is Myself

When I started making this blog, my goal was to be able to look back at my life and see all the negative vices that have attempted to throw me off. By doing so, I would remember God's faithfulness. Instead, I write today not about exterior circumstances that have plotted against me from the outside, but of interior and more deadly.

So often I can look at the world from a perspective of me as the white knight on a horse, and the world as all the tree trunks that get in my way. In reality, it is quite the opposite. So often I find that my greatest enemy is myself. My sins, my faults, my shortcomings. My temper, my selfishness. The list could go on and on. Most certainly, the very last thing I should be worried of is what the world throws my way! Indeed, I should be far more concerned with the toxic waste that is my heart and mind. I'm reminded of these verses:

Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things."
Romans 17:8, "For I know that no good dwells in me, my flesh.."
Eph. 2:3 "We were children of wrath by nature"

Our greatest enemy is the sin that lies within us. Not the devil, not other people, and most certainly not exterior circumstances. It is a battle we should be well equipped for and ready to fight every waking hour.

The quote my blog was named after says, "He who has a why to live can bear most any how." My reason for living is to glorify God. Can God really accomplish my purpose through the "how" that is my sin?

The very best we can do is desperately pray for God's mercy, redemption, and healing.

I will be doing that much today.