Giving in/up, is Easy.

Giving into this world is easy...giving into the pleasures and materials on this earth is peezy (in other words, easy)

The challenge (and the struggle), is NOT conforming to that pattern.

...How hard is it to give in to the flesh?...when you think of "giving up", how does that make you feel?...when you run a race, and you give up...

that's for a 'soft person' (that's right, in my own terms)...soft resistance to temptation, and standing firmness on who they model. Jesus Christ (as a Christian).

To live like Christ is hard, a challenge, and it's something worth striving for.

Be: different. Being different, is a good thing generally, when we're talking about being different from this world.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.¹⁴ But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

Matthew 7:13-14

-----------------------------------------------------------

"...For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory. ¹⁷ But, “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”^{[b] 18} For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."

2 Corinthians 10:16-18

To God be the glory.