I’ve noticed that when I hit a wall, when I fail, when I sin – my default reaction is to step up the constraints on my life.  What if the actual answer lies in the opposite direction?

It is for freedom Christ set us free.  Why would I submit again to a yoke of slavery?

I may need a new understanding of how good the good news truly is, how good God is, how he wants me to manage my freedom and expand it, rather than institute a series of laws against myself that do not work. In fact, scripture tells us the laws we insert in our own lives have the opposite effect from what we intend.

Jack says it well –

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses