The internal tussle between what we know to be good and what we seem to find ourselves doing despite our knowing what is good, is as old as humanity itself. It is a universal experience to have unconscious drives within us that take us places our conscious weighing of things would never direct us!

St Paul says it like this: “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.”

How familiar are you with this experience in your own life? What have you discovered to be the most useful way to reign in unconscious wayward drives? Does faith in Christ offer us anything helpful here?

St Paul certainly believes Christ does!