Whatever you don’t control, controls you.  Rampant lusts and unbridled hungers may not lead to trouble, but excesses always come with baggage.  Whether food, sex, entertainment, shopping, anger or affection overindulgence serves another master, namely the god of flesh.  If my actions, thoughts and prayer time is not focused on the Lord then I am serving someone else.  And the Bible explicitly says this is not possible as we will love one and hate the other at some point.

Is flesh my god?  Emphatically I say “No”, the Holy Spirit of God rules in my universe and therefore He leads me toward self-control.  The difficult learning in all this is that this is entirely none of my doing.  The Lord calls me to surrender and then He will indwell me, making the changes to my internal landscape so that it may accommodate His Glory.  I was incapable of saving myself, I am incapable of sanctifying myself.  The irony of Christianity is two-fold; one I must surrender in fearful wisdom of the Lord I serve and then humble myself in weakness so that I may be used to fullest extent of my capacity.  This is antithetical to the world’s understanding and paradigm, therefore, the spiritually blind cannot see God.

Oh, Lord speak to their hearts.  Let them see worldly aspiration as futility wrapped in a blanket of pointlessness.  Winning the world means nothing if I am to be forever separated from Almighty God.  I will have achieved less than nothing, stealing from myself the opportunity for Eternity spent with my maker.  Let me surrender my entire life to You so that Your Grace may expose every corner of my humanity to Your Holiness.  Bring into line all my behaviors so that nothing I do offends You or serves another master.  You alone are God, King, Majesty, Might and Honor.  Jesus be praised.  Amen.