Preface, The Enemy Within

To the above end, we will be blogging through Kris Lundgaard's little, but life-transforming book, The Enemy Within.

To begin, the "impotence of my sanctification" (13) has tormented me all 11 years that I've been a Christian. I can go back to my early journals and see the same struggles and disappointments that still mark my life to this day. I hate that, and it has to change. That is why I thank God for sending His Son, saving me and crossing my path with this book. If by some fluke of providence Mr. Lundgaard were to ever find this site, I want him to know how grateful I am for his struggles though Owen (13) and his desire to share the fruit of his labors (14) with people like me who need hope in the midst of the battle.

My prayer during this exercise is that I too may change through sincerely owning mortification of sin and universal holiness so that God, His Word, His gospel and His Son will be "adorned in all things" (15) and no longer inconsequential in my own heart and life.