The Enemy Within

What a great book! This is a book for everyone! There is a saying "You Are Your Own Worse Enemy"? I am sure it sounds familiar to most of you. This book deals with the heart and the ongoing sin in our lives. Our hearts are constantly haunted by our thoughts, plans, judgement, longings, choices and a sense of right or wrong. This battle within us goes on for the rest of our lives. The ideas and content of this book was based on the works of John Owen. This book gives us hope in the battle within our own soul.

Paul knows what it is like to battle the enemy -- look at Romans 7:14-19 --- 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

There is hope for all of us. In Christ ...