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Living With a Phi Beta Kappa Roommate

 

Have you ever lived with a roommate that puts you down? Let’s say you’re a crummy student and you get a Phi Beta Kappa as a roommate. Now that’s rather threatening, isn’t it? And let’s say you are not disciplined, but your roommate has discipline as his middle name. Let’s say you are happy to just  leave things laying around. Of course, your roommate is just like living with Mr. Prim. Well after a while, what happens? If you’re controlled by the flesh, you get mad, you get competive. That’s what happened when the new nature and the Holy Spirit move in at salvation into your body. The new nature shares his room with the old nature, and a constant civil war is waging. (Swindol’s Ultimate Book of Illustrations and Quotes, p. 271).