The Obstacles of Change

We all exist in relational systems and rhythms and structures. When we change, when we are healed, some of those systems don't like it. External resistance is a real obstacle when it comes to working out our salvation. In first peter, chapter five, among other places, we read that we have a very real enemy who is, so many words, after us. And if you don't know that he hates you, that's what the text basically says. And he wants you dead. He wants us dead, spiritually, emotionally, relationally and physically. The call to work out our salvation is also work out the resist we feel here, but also the brokenness we're experiencing