Where to Walk, Where to Look
We learn to walk with and trust in the Lord by fellowshipping. When we look to the devil’s world for inner happiness, the purpose of our lives slips into the devil’s trap. Fleshly lusts become counterfeits to our love for Christ. Our thinking becomes worldly and lust patterns dominate the soul.
“The pleasure we find in fleshly lusts only serve as an anesthetic to deaden the pain of our empty heart.” — C. S. Craig
When you do not stay in fellowship, you deliberately choose against the Lord (Hebrews 11:6; Proverbs 3:5 and 6; 1st Corinthians 10:13; Hebrews 4:16; Ephesians 6:12; first John 5:4).
You are in a spiritual battle that you cannot win without the Lord—you are naked without protection by the armor of God (Ephesians 5:18; 6:10-17).
Satan can be used by God to destroy the flesh of the descending believer, as he has turned to a disobedient lifestyle, first Corinthians 5: one through five; 2nd Corinthians 11: 3,4; 13-15.