The ancient Greeks told a story of a warrior named Achilles. His mother had been warned that he would die of a wound, so she dipped him as an infant in the river Styx. That was supposed to make him invincible.
THERE WAS ONE PROBLEM -- she held him by one heel which the protective waters did not touch. It was that "unprotected" heel where he received his fatal wound.
Each of us must ask: What is my Achilles heel? We need to know our weaknesses, where we are easily tempted and then spiritually wounded (1 Pe 2:11, James 1:13-15). Then, as we rely on the Word of the Lord and the Spirit of the Lord to enable us to fight the temptation (see Gal 5:16).
His amazing grace will enable us to be protected from the lusts that originate from within, from our fallen flesh and from the external temptations that come from “the flaming arrows of the evil one” (Eph. 6:16).
- Precept Austin