The hardest fight – the fight against our self

We want to do good but we keep sinning. This is caused by our corrupt nature – the old self in us. And therefore we need to repent time and time again. All things considered, we must have the courage to make mistakes, for otherwise we would do nothing in pursuit of false perfection. Humility is the will to learn. We need to learn from our mistakes, yet however hard we may try, we will not stop making mistakes. The law of God was given to us to convict us, to show us what we are like and to teach us that we need to repent – otherwise we would either sleep or be puffed up in self-deceit. As long as we take our old self seriously, it lets us stew in our own juice, and if someone wants to help us and tells us the truth, we take offence. As soon as we start to fight in earnest against our old self in small matters, we will see its clever tricks. It is cunning like a serpent. It exists in various forms but has only one aim – to lead us by the nose and cooperate with the devil. It’s not an even fight. It’s like rolling a large stone up the hill. If we stop holding it, it rolls down again. We soon discover that it’s not just the doing of the old self. This old self obeys someone.

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