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The way to examine whether we are doing what Jesus Christ wants us
to do is to look at the habits of our life in three domains
physical, emotional, and intellectual.
The best scrutiny we can give ourselves is along this line:
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Are my
bodily habits chaste?
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Is my
emotional nature inordinate?
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Is my
intellectual life insubordinate?
When we begin to
work out what God has worked in, we are faced with the problem
that this physical body, this mechanism, has been used by habit to
obeying another rule called sin; when Jesus Christ delivers us
from that rule, He does not give us a new body, He gives us power
to break and then re-mould every habit formed while we were under
the dominion of sin.
Much of the misery in our Christian life comes not because the
devil tackles us, but because we have never understood the simple
laws of our make-up. We have to treat the body as the servant of
Jesus Christ:
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When the body
says 'Sit', and He says 'Go', go!
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When the body
says 'Eat', and He says 'Fast', fast!
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When the body
says 'Yawn', and He says 'Pray', pray !
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