learned that guilt and fear may serve us well, as warnings against the direct dangers posed by a disease like AIDS, or against the more subtle dangers represented by an addiction to lust. Yet guilt and fear are such powerful forces that they may also deceive. In my case, they deceived me into seeing God as my enemy. Now as I read “The War Within,” it reminds me of a testimony delivered at a revival tent meeting: “For many years I wallowed in the stench and filth of sin until finally I reached the