God knows all about our addictions to power and pride and gambling and pornography and cocaine and depression and anger and Cheetos. He knows about our tendency to worship what we create. He knows how much we like to take what isn’t ours, say what isn’t true, distort the truth to our advantage, take credit for what we haven’t done, have our way at any cost, belittle those who disagree with us, step on those who get in our way, evade, excuse, attack, justify, rationalize, indulge in our fantasies, and look for loopholes.

Every choice we make forges another invisible link on yet another internal chain that leads either toward freedom or death, toward heaven or hell.

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