"The twisted logic of the flesh is subtle—or it wouldn't work. It sounds reasonable. It knows that God has called you to work hard at your calling, and to give yourself to other people in love. Of course, the flesh would rather you did nothing noble and pleasing to God; but if it can use your work and social life to undermine your communion with God, it will.
"But think through this: Is it likely that God would call you to do more than he gives you time to do? No one who believes God is good and wise could answer yes. So when it seems you don't have enough time to do your work, care for your family, love your friends, and devote yourself to prayer and meditation, the problem isn't God's providence. The problem may be that you've taken on yourself more than God intended."
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"Which is easier: to sit with a bucket of butter-soaked popcorn and watch Tom Cruise on the big screen for two hours, or kneel and pray for five minutes? Tom Cruise wins hands down, because there is literally no competition. What the flesh hates is God, so it resists anything that smacks of God—especially communion with him. The flesh can curl up by your side and watch mindless movies all night long. But let even the barest thought of meditations flutter into your mind, and the flesh goes to Red Alert. Before you get past "Our Father," your eyes, which were glued to the screen, now sag in sleepiness, and your attention, which was so fixed on the plot, now zips around the universe faster than the Starship Enterprise.
"You can feel the hostility of the flesh whenever you approach God—it makes real love for him into work."
—Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within
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