Romans 8:6 ESV
[6] For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
https://bible.com/bible/59/rom.8.6.ESV
The flesh or the Spirit? Which do you choose? I choose to participate in the spiritually divine and in doing so I am trading enmity for love.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV
[4] by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
https://bible.com/bible/59/2pe.1.4.ESV
For the law of God is my new holy affection.
Romans 7:22 ESV
[22] For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
https://bible.com/bible/59/rom.7.22.ESV
As a true believer in Christ then - the Spirit dwells and inhabits though the sin principle remains. The flesh cannot be tamed except by the Helper.
John 16:7 ESV
[7] Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.16.7.ESV
John 17:23 ESV
[23] I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.17.23.ESV
For in the ongoing battle against sin I grow in the process of sanctification not with idle will or mind.
For since it has been made known to me that I hold a mind of many thoughts; oh the agony of a distracted state! My brain has too many tabs.
2 Samuel 11:2 ESV
[2] It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
https://bible.com/bible/59/2sa.11.2.ESV
So these thoughts are to be captured and held.
For all men have limited bandwidth.
Matthew 6:24 NIV
[24] “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammom.
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.6.24.NIV
Now is the time to cultivate the new and eliminate the old. Time for the hard work - sin is not put out with any formula of man or religious activity or external means. It is killed from within. It is ONLY by the power of the Holy Spirit may we carry out the process with any success for I am but of dust.
For I know not if i have shared my faith in a way that has turned a heart of stone to flesh. What seeds have I sown? Not enough! So I write cause I cannot contain the grief.
Once long ago I may have heard the call and did not obey. So I awake from my slumber, as a sleeper agent now activated for Christ. For there is a message that must go out!
To the unbeliever: This is of great importance and urgency. Repent and flee to Christ! Can you see the brokenness in this world? The beauty of this earth? Can you believe what is true and has been set in your heart since eternity?
To the believer: it is a perpetual commitment to remain with eyes open. So prioritize hacking Agag to pieces lest you forfeit the riches.

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