This Ephesians 2:3 description of sin, “We all did what we felt like doing,” keeps ringing in my ears. It has so many applications:

I felt like eating seven donuts.

I felt like yelling at my kids.

I felt like cutting off that person in traffic.

I felt like operating out of loneliness.

I felt like living out of rejection.

I felt like….

Most of the time when I am conflicted in a matter it’s a struggle between what I should do to honor someone else (or God or myself) and what I “feel like” doing.

It’s hard.  But naming the problem helps.  The condition of sin is the condition of wanting to captain our own ships — and being willing to die on that hill.

But God knew we would be like that, and he made a plan.

Consider this as you study Ephesians, chapter two.