What Is the Greatest Obstacle in Our Life of Faith?

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)
Yes... There are seventeen fleshly thoughts in human being..Dear friends, do you know what this Word of God means? Through this Word, God tells us the fact that the greatest problem for believing in God and leading a life of faith is nothing other than one's own fleshly thoughts. As we go about believing in and obeying God, what hinders us the most are our fleshly thoughts of and nothing else. God is telling us that when a person is bound by his own fleshly thoughts, and when a person persists in his own fleshly thoughts, he can neither follow nor obey the Word of God. What would have happened if the servants appearing in the first miracle of Jesus were people with strong personal opinions and fleshly thoughts? They surely would have thought, "He is joking. Though I may fill up these water pots up with water, there is no way that I can obey his Word telling us to draw some and take it out to the people. Coz what those people wan after all is wine, not water." This might seem like an appropriate and logical thinking. But, if they had believed in their thoughts and had not drawn some water and brought it to people, they would not have been able to witness the miracle of water turning into wine. Furthermore, they would not have been able to gain the great joy that resulted from it.
Dear friends, as we lead a life of faith, what is the greatest obstacle preventing us from solving certain problems by faith? Precisely, it is our fleshly thought which causes our faith to sway. This is a problem which just cannot be considered lightly. It is because people who have fleshly thoughts of their own can neither believe nor follow the Word of God. Jesus said, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me" (Matthew 16:24). The very first thing that we must do when we try to follow the Word of Jesus is to deny our thoughts. Therefore, when leading a life of faith, it is very important for us to throw away our own fleshly thoughts. We believe that all the Word of God written in the Bible is the truth. The truth spoken by God is simple, yet it is the perfect truth. Thus, all one has to do is to just accept it as it is. But there are times when fleshly thoughts creep up and obstruct it. Fleshly thoughts come up by themselves, and thus, there is even a saying that a human being is but a thinking reed. You also have many fleshly thoughts, don't you? Yet, when you dwell in those fleshly thoughts, the faith in the Word of God will soon disappear completely and there will only remain useless thoughts. When that happens, the faith in the Word of God will no longer exist. Being unable to believe in God, you will no longer be able to follow God till the end. Also, we will experience anguish and guilt as a result of this.
Dear friends, I hope you know that people who have many fleshly thoughts of their own can neither follow nor believe in God, and in the end, they become unable to receive the salvation. But here is the way which God gives us to have a fruitful life of faith by instilling the fruits of the Spirit inside us. i.e. but the fruit of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)Let us give our life to God by growing in the fruits of the Spirit breaking the Greatest Obstacle for Our Life of Faith and turn it towards his will.
- VIJAY