Last night, I saw a one-man dramatic production of C.S. Lewis' novella, The Great Divorce. It is about a man who takes a bus trip from hell to heaven. The "ghosts" from hell each are being given an opportunity to give up their personal vice in order to walk the path to heaven. One by one, they decline the offer.
Finally, there is one man, with a talking lizard on his back that whispers in his ear like a friend. The man is reluctant to give up this lizard of lust because it will be so painful for the angel to remove it. However, he relents and when the lizard is removed it morphs into a powerful, beautiful stallion that the man then mounts and rides strongly away towards heaven.
Do you have a vice, a lust, that is clinging to you, that seems like an old friend, that you think you would miss if it were taken from you? This very thing could be prohibiting progress towards a strong and victorious "ride" towards heaven. Give it to God. Submit to its removal and see what happens as a result.
TV~
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. [Galatians 5:17]
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