Sometimes we prefer to “struggle” even when we are quite clear about what we ought to do. Struggling in such a case only postpones obedience. While we play for time, we can put off the moment of terrible choice. Sooner or later someone is bound to come along and say just what we hoped to hear, “Go with your feelings.” That may seem the easiest way until we try it, whereupon we find that feelings are always cancelling each other out—which ones shall we go with? When we have once met God we know there’s a war on. We have a lower nature that sets its desires against the Spirit.
