You are not what you want. Â You are who you are. Â And that’s defined by the Word of God. It might be that God frees your appetite from whatever it’s drawn toward, but usually he instead enables you to fight it. Â This might go on for forty days, for forty years, for an entire lifetime. Â That’s all right. Â There must be room then in our churches for a genuine bearing of one another’s burdens when it comes to the appetites. Â Pretending the appetites are instantly nullified by conversion is a rejection of what God has told us–that we are still in the war zone.
–Russell Moore, Tempted and Tried
