We’ve come full circle, back to the admonition of Christ to deny yourself. To be guided by our own will is to be led by that which will one day cease to exist; it is only by inviting God’s will, God’s ways that eternal satisfaction is ours. It is only by laying our own lives down that we pick up the abundance we so desperately crave. The Soulish Stakes of War Satan, of course, doesn’t want this for us; he’s determined to make our souls his. And thus the unseen battle rages on. You and I—ourselves,