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You Are Your Own Worst Enemy.
Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jun 26, 2023 (message contributor)
"Cain slew Abel, but Cain’s worst enemy was himself". - R E Neighbour
“There is an old Icelandic legend that contains its own lesson. There was a man who was constantly pursued by a terrible spirit which took the form of a dwarf.
His grain ricks were fired, his barns unroofed, his cattle destroyed, his lands blasted, and his first-born slain. So, he lay in wait for the monster where it lived in the caves near his house, and in the darkness of night he saw it with a cry he rushed upon it, and gripped it about the waist, and it turned upon him and held him by the shoulder.
‘Long he wrestled with it, reeling, staggering, falling, and rising again, but at length a flood of strength came to him, and he overthrew it, and stood over it, covering it, conquering it, with his. right hand set hard at its throat. Then he drew his knife to kill it, and the moon shot through a rack of cloud, opening an alley of light about it, and he saw its face, and lo! the face of the evil dwarf was his own.’
We ourselves are our own worst enemy. The greatest business that we ever have to do is with God. Sin leaves such a stain that there is no power in all the world that can cleanse it but the blood of Jesus Christ!"
- Wells of Living Water
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