Captain Ahab was driven by his rage to chase the whale to the end. The flesh is just as driven, and will with its last breath spit at God. But there is in us a Warrior just as committed to the flesh’s destruction. The Spirit wars against the flesh (Galatians 5:7). Filled with the Spirit, empowered by God’s love of us and our love for him, we turn on the flesh with our Captain’s own curse.
- Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin, copyright 1998, page 48
