I was listening to my very favourite preacher,Chuck Swindoll, and one of the first things he said was.''We can be our own worse enemy''.That's very true,take king David,he had many enemies, the giant Goliath, the Philistines,King Saul, and later on his own son ,Absalom, but the biggest enemy he had to face was,you've guessed,himself. Which led him to commit adultery,then murder,no one forced him to do such a terrible evil.it was all about David.Shakespeare wrote,'Man know thyself''.If we would take seriously what God 's word teaches us as regards our fallen nature,things can be different,to be forewarned is to be forearmed.Our fallen nature is inclined to cause us to fall, Chuck quoted someone who said,'Don't just read the Bible,let the bible read you',that means we will be left with no excuse if we fall morally into sin,its not just self awareness,but Bible awareness that will be to our advantage in dealing with public enemy number one, ourselves.How do we avoid falling into sin,by avoiding those things that can trip us up. Joseph ran from sin,so often we run into sin,the result disaster.And again as Chuck said,'' we must fight our battles on our knee's'', we must take these things very seriously,as our dear Saviour said to the disciples,'Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation, why?,'The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak'.Matthew 26 v 41.
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