Your choice isn't whether to passionately seek pleasure. Trust me, you do. Your only option is where you'll look or whom you'll love or whose offer of pleasure you'll accept. I hardly need remind you, or perhaps I do, that the world will do everything in its power and employ whatever means necessary and spare no expense to capture the allegiance of your heart.
One of two things you must do; you must either receive Him or reject Him. You receive Him here and He will receive you there; you reject Him here and He will reject you there.
Before we had no choice; now we have one. When we sin as Christians, we do not sin as slaves, but as individuals with the freedom of choice. We sin because we choose to sin.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Pursuit of Holiness, p. 57.
We have to take control of our bodies, and make them our servants instead of our masters.
Author: Jerry Bridges Source: The Pursuit of Holiness, p. 111.
Your choice isn't whether to passionately seek pleasure. Trust me, you do. Your only option is where you'll look or whom you'll love or whose offer of pleasure you'll accept. I hardly need remind you, or perhaps I do, that the world will do everything in its power and employ whatever means necessary and spare no expense to capture the allegiance of your heart.