john eldredge a battle to fight chapter 8 wild at heart

The traitor within the castle will try to lower the drawbridge, but don’t let him. Walk into a dark house late at night and suddenly fear sweeps over you or just stand in a grocery line with all those tabloids shouting sex at you and suddenly a sense of corruption is yours.īut this is where your strength is revealed and even increased - through exercise. Satan doesn’t just throw a thought at us he throws feelings too. It will feel like holding on to a rope while you’re being dragged behind a truck, like keeping your balance in a hurricane.

This will not be easy, especially when all hell is breaking loose around you. He answered with Scripture and we’ve got to do the same.

This is how Christ answered Satan - He didn’t get into an argument with him, try to reason his way out. Dodge the blow, block it with a stubborn refusal, slash back with what is true. When we are under attack, we’ve got to hang on to the truth. Only it takes place, initially, at the level of our thoughts. That’s exactly what is going on in the unseen around us. In any hand-to-hand combat, there’s a constant back-and-forth of blows, dodges, blocks, counterattacks, and so forth.

John eldredge a battle to fight chapter 8 wild at heart