What shall we do with the opening line of this text?  Let's acknowledge that there's a bit of a misinterpretation minefield about submission in the marriage sphere that we need to deal with first, and then we can turn to what holy submission looks like and what it doesn't look like.

Lurking in every human heart is a problematic lover who loves the darkness.  Our culture has defined the best life as the life which always gets to do what it wants-a life lived without limits.

In today's sermon, Paul continues with the metaphor of life as a walk, but contrasts the Christian walk with another walk- the world exerts a strong pull on us, but the path of worldly success is a cruel and demanding idol.

Paul makes use of a favorite image here- our life as a walk; a journey from here to there, one step at a time.  

How are you doing?  

Although we might answer this question with "I'm fine", in our "inner being" we feel beaten down, beaten down by our own sin and by the world.  

How will I discern the truth from a lie?  I'm not able to navigate the simplest aspect of my life without getting made into a fool.  How will I navigate heaven itself?