God the Father through Jesus’ sacrifice wants to give you a truly good
life: fellowship with Himself, love, peace, joy, freedom from the fear of
death, financial provision, acceptance, friends and yourself. As you serve Him,
He offers you your true self.
The reality is that the roles, identities, activities, and attitudes that
you and I have accepted — the mindless or one-dimensional life, the endless
search for love, the drinking, drugs, sex, power, money, endless adventure,
etc. — all are errant attempts to find a good and abundant life. We live lives of
sin trying to find peace, pleasure, and all the rest. Through faith and
trusting God, He gives us the focus and relationship to delete the unnecessary
and un-useful stuff (roles, un-useful activities, improper sex, drinking, escape,
etc.) and gives us what those things often promise but cannot deliver.
In God & through God, we lose the sin & its ultimate destructiveness, to get God & what He has for us here.
– from Defeat Your Saboteurs
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