desires to make our lives full by graciously pouring his own life and love into us, but the flesh says that God is incapable or unwilling to give us full life. So if our lives are to be full, the flesh concludes, it will have to come about by what we can do, how we can look, what we can acquire, and so on. Living in the flesh, then, is living in deception and thus in opposition to truth. It is living as though God is not who God really is, and we are not who the Bible says we really are. It is living