The One Weapon Against Sinful Desires
Everyone is a stranger in one of two ways. You are either a stranger to God, or a "stranger in the world." But you can't be both.
The apostle Peter wrote these words to Christians: "I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul." (1 Peter 2:11) Christians are "strangers in the world" in the sense that heaven is our ultimate home. It is where we will spend eternity. We are just "passing through" earth right now on the way to our homeland.
And while we are here, we are in a battle. There is a spiritual war going on, and sinful desires are the enemy. These desires wage war against us, and there is only one way to defeat them. Abstain.
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