Against the Flow

I recently began reading Kris Lundgaard's The Enemy Within. In speaking about the Christian's awareness of indwelling sin, he offers this thought provoking word picture:

"Believers are the only people who ever find the law of sin at work in them. Unbelievers can't feel it. The law of sin is a raging river, carrying them along; they cannot measure the force of the current, because they have surrendered themselves to it and are borne along by it. A believer, on the other hand, swims upstream--he meets sin head-on and strains under its strength" (page 25).