spiritual schizophrenia

What do you call a person with two entirely different, opposite, clashing selves that are trying to kill each other? Whatever the word for it, it's far worse off than your normal medically-treatable schizophrenia, and unfortunately, it's an illness that will plague us Christians for the rest of our lives. Check this out.

1. This is you. Or us--a human made in God’s image. Ladies, sorry you have to identify with a little guy...and I’m not sure why he doesn’t have a shirt.




2. This is the flesh. He’s kind of a Jabba the Hut meets WWF wrestler. The Flesh represents the sinful, corrupted desires of our heart. It’s not a reference to our bodies--our bodies are created by God and are good. The flesh represents our sinful cravings to live for ourselves and disobey God’s laws and commands.

Intrigued? The pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MY, the same guy who wrote "Boy Meets Girl" and "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," yes, the famous Josh Harris, came up with these perky cartoons to illustrate the old self and the new self.

Check out his entire post here. You might also want to read his more recent series on holiness here, here and here.