You can be your biggest obstacle

^{Genesis 25: 31-34}

³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

³² And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright

You can be your biggest obstacle. This is why the Word tells us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. Because it’s not the enemy afar off that does the most damage but the one closest. It’s our own flesh that causes us to stumble.  For this reason “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” Matthew 4:4. It’s not always easy to turn away from the thing that your flesh so strongly desire for (LUST for). But we know that “to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace”. Romans 8:6

Manna for thought: John 4:13-14

¹³ Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:¹⁴ But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

Encouraging song of the day: Draw nigh Fred Hammond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbtRnmhBunM