City

  A man without self control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Proverbs 25:28 ESV  

 Back in the day, a city without walls was easy prey for  the enemy. A modern equivalent would be a country without a missile defence system. If Israel  didn't have the "Iron Dome" missile defence system, well there's plenty of countries that would  like to wipe Israel off the face of the earth...

 If we don't have self control, we're defenceless  against the attacks of the evil one. And he will attack us. And we will be broken into if we don't have the self control to resist.

 John Bunyan, famous for his allegorical Pilgrim's Progress, wrote  another allegory called the Holy War. In it, he pictures a man as a city, the gates of whose walls  are the five senses. That's how satan attacks us- through what we see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

  So are we hopeless if we're found like a city without walls, without self control and overrun by the  enemy of our souls. Thankfully not. But we need to send a plea out to the King of our souls to  come and rescue us. Christ has given His life for us, and defeated the devil by rising again from  the dead, to reign forevermore.

 "King of our souls, may You reign in our hearts forevermore.  Where we find ourselves defenceless against the enemy, we ask that You would be our shield and  defender. Please help us to become disciplined, for Your glory, amen"