The enemies within allow the external enemies in.
Your heart is a fortress/a temple/a home for the spirit/the you.... and it has to be protected. Some people argue that this is naive and immature, but it merits a discussion.
You have a part of you that is vulnerable to endless joy and endless sorrow. This part is heavily defended. It is structured around many evolutionary defenses. Your mind, body, and soul are built and created to protect this "youness" and to keep shielded it from the evils/hurts/sin/the separation.
But you are, at times, the enemy of you without knowing it. You allow the defenses to be weaken or you are deceived by something/someone to weaken it yourself.
This is what sin is. It is the trojan horse for the soul.
Working with a wide age range of kids, youth, adults, and sages...I've seen it happen countless times. There is something tiny but toxic about sin. It weakens your defenses and it's good at it. Many righteous (meaning in right standing with God in this context) men/women have fallen prey to this gifted horse.
It always presents itself as harmless and we see it as a nice addition to our identity. The when your soul is at rest....that gifted horse opens up to an assault on you.
You rebuild/refortify but your weaken by the attack and because of this you allow a different one in and so on and so on.
I've heard excuses about watching Tosh.0, Family Guy, seeing this movie, going to this party, lying about this small thing, disobeying authority over small things, etc, etc, etc.....
....and that's just the excuses I have said to myself.
People sin because they want to on some level. Everyone thinks that they can control a little sin or an occasional sin. We believe we control it, but in that mindset we lose control and we are too weak to defend the divine within us from the "undivine" we invited in.
May you be slow to act and quick to think/pray/mediate. May you understand your strength/deFENCEs and recognize where your walls are vulnerable. Recognizes those big beautiful Trojan horses for the deception they create in your heart.
-ryan
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