It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot

imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. C.S. Lewis The Weight Of Glory

Powerless Solutions

Performing Conversion TIME Pretending Growing Awareness of God’s Holiness Performing Conversion TIME Pretending Growing Awareness of My Flesh and Sinfulness

One may shut himself up in a monastery in order to escape the world, only to find he has taken the world in with him. Harry Ironside Lectures on the Epistle to the Colossians

There is only one thing that will put the collar on the neck of the animal within us, and that is the power of the indwelling Christ. Alexander Maclaren “The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon” The Expositor’s Bible

Conversion TIME Growing Awareness of God’s Holiness Growing Awareness of My Flesh and Sinfulness

Man's way of safeguard is by placing various restraints and negations of evil . . . God's way is by “stripping off the body of the flesh” through death and resurrection with Christ, giving us a new life, a new nature, and a continual flow of

nourishment for that new life direct from the Risen Head in Heaven. William Lincoln Lectures on the Epistles to the Colossians

nourishment for that new life direct from the Risen Head in Heaven. William Lincoln Lectures on the Epistles to the Colossians