Ok, so you know me well and you know all of the psychological mind-games that get me all turned around and confused. You know how to change the subject or sneak-attack at just the right times. You also have me convinced that you are me.
But I know the truth. I know that I am new in Christ. And now I am going to beat you to the next put-down: I know that I am not strong enough to fight you!
But here is what I also know: you are not me (sorry) because I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me! I have been made new! So why are you still kicking around?
Because I don’t pray enough but try to fight you on my own strength.
(Because I am stuck with the likes of you to some degree until I leave this place.)
Because I worship the “security” or “freedom” from my stresses that you offer me so cheeply (at only the cost of wasting my life!).
Because I have let you train me into habits and patterns of thinking.
But not because I am you or you are me.
Christ is more powerful and I belong to Him now. I commit to striving after him in every way that I can.
So go home. Go to Hell.