I don’t know about you, but I know that when that warfare gets strong I can become amazingly subtle; I can rationalize beautifully a million reasons it’s perfectly okay to go back to the old behaviors, the old deadness. And it makes perfectly logical, rational sense. It can even seem pious, except that I know deep down in my heart that it isn’t. This is why I need others who will keep on saying, “Come on, Bob, quit kidding yourself, hang in there, push on, keep on offering the discipline.”
