remove from our lives

"We need to remove from our own lives the marks of the life we led before repentance. Each of us is aware of what his besetting sins were, what the allurements and weaknesses of that time were when he walked without God. Let him now take heed to his ways and cleanse his home, his leisure time, his very thinking, of the sings of those old gods. Only by positive thinking and the direct bringing of Christ into everything can this be done. The letter to the Romans put it this way: 'Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill it in the lusts thereof.' If we leave the high places undestroyed we shall find that our waywardness will lead us back to them."