So why fight? Why deny what feels right in order to enshroud ourselves in a seemingly vain attempt at righteous living? As followers of the Way, we must be rooted in him with our whole selves: doubts, failures, wayward eyes, tender hearts, and dreams alike. They all belong to Him. We fight because that is who we are, and in doing so we embrace a nature deeper than the sin that ensnares us.
The Nothing, a force of subtle, creeping compromise, tears away at the human soul, eroding our very identity until we are nothing more than a thread of the person we once were. Is there hope against this powerful force?
God KNOWS we are sick with sin. It is a virus his children contracted at the Fall. And although Christ has come to bring life and grace and peace, we still deal with the effects of this disease. Through the power of the Holy Spirit and community of believers we can have victory over areas of great failure and compromise, but sin will remain an unwelcome companion until the day our bodies stop working and life on Earth is complete. This is reality. No amount of mind games or positive thinking can change this. We find peace when we throw ourselves at the foot of the cross.