This is an example of us (as believers) having to die daily to self ... to our fleshly desires ... to our addictions ... to our apathy ... whatever chains we have upon us.
Part of the battle is us trying to figure out how
we can do it.
But let God be glorified and we not rest in our own strength. We need to go about the 1st and greatest commandment ... loving the LORD our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength! Truly when we take our life (everything) and desire God's glory and worship. When we determine to truly seek Him ... what once was a boulder that could not be budged ... will soon slide a little ... then, with perseverance and daily nourishment to our souls from our Father ... the boulder will be reduced to a stone ... that occassionally you will stub your toe on. For we will always have sin within us as long as we dwell upon this earth, but that does not mean it will have dominion over us. when we fall (stub our toe upon the stone that used to be a boulder) we repent, pick ouselves back up, then seek to walk more understandingly ... learning how we stumbled and how we can try to prevent it next time.
My sins ever seek to make their way out any opportunity they get ... But when my purpose is to seek God's glory and give him everything (heart, soul, mind & strength) so that He might be glorified, I have found that this has been my greatest strength in not wallowing in darling sins and mortifying the flesh.
