Listening to the Flesh

Now at the risk of making you think badly of me, I must just be honest and confess something: I don’t always want to come to church. There! It’s out! I said it! You know what I would really do if I just gave in to my flesh? I’d sit home in my easy chair, watch TV and eat ice cream! In fact, if I’m not careful, I will spend an inordinate amount of my time thinking about how I can go home, sit down in my easy chair, watch TV and eat ice cream. In fact, there are times when I am scheduled to do discipleship with someone during the evening, but my flesh is telling me, “You feel bad; you’re probably getting sick; you need to call this person up tell, them that you’re sick, then go home, sit down in your easy chair, watch TV and eat ice cream. And you know what I find? I find that, if I’m not careful, I will even get stressed out about it. I’ll be thinking: “This meeting needs to get finished quickly because I need to go home, sit down in my easy chair, watch TV and eat ice cream. I will even feel rushed when I’m having a conversation after church is over sometimes because always I’m hearing that voice of my flesh that says: go home, sit down in my easy chair, watch TV and eat ice cream.