"Christian, remember your dignity, and now that you share in God's own nature, do not return by sin to your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Do not forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and bought into the light of God's kingdom." Pope Leo the Great

How important it is to keep always before us this truth of our identity in Christ! We belong to the Lord. All we do or say should reflect this reality. To take our focus off God, our source of being and new life and put our focus on ourselves is to move from the spirit to the flesh. When we seek to please God and not self, we will more effectively stay far from sin. The focus of sin is self outside relationship with God. Jesus in his humanity kept his eyes on the Father, always seeking to do the will of the Father and not his own outside of the Father. He taught the same to his disciples. "Seek first the kingdom of God."