Galatians 4:9
9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Imagine a prisoner. He is filthy, in a cramped, lightless place with stale air and awful smells. Hopeless and chained, he only gets the miserable company of the bugs that live on him. Then the sound of the lid being pulled away, light blinds, and gentle hands pull him up to clean, feed and free him. What is the one place on the planet that guy is never voluntarily returning to?
In the same way, you and I are freed by God from the way we used to live. It was enslaving, destructive, and ultimately deadly. If you can see that, even when it seems so tempting, you can walk away. It will be as easy as doing what you want to do. Use your imagination to see sin the way that God does.
Prayer prompt: Lord, please keep me from returning to what will hurt me, even when it is hard.