Fleshly Impatience

The child of God has three enemies with which he must fight all through his earthly life: the devil, the world and his flesh. And that flesh is to be reckoned with, if we are to understand his struggle in the midst of this world. We must not be too quick to blame the devil for the sins which we commit. And we sin so often when there is no world to tempt us or to bring pressure to bear upon us. Paul writes in his epistle to the Romans that, "The carnal (fleshly) mind is enmity against God, for...