I have a friend I have been trying to bring closer to Jesus. This friend of mine is struggling with turning his life over to Jesus. He mentioned to me a few weeks ago that the word surrender keeps coming to him. However, he has also mentioned that sin is fun to him and he does not want to stop doing it. You know what, I agreed with him that sin is fun. As a matter of fact, I used to enjoy it in a major way. I liked doing the things that God is against. A lot of it felt really good too! For example: drugs, sex, and partying all the time was fun while even producing a sense of euphoria. 
I have to admit though that inside I was hurting. I was very aware of that. Not only that, but I was really hurting those in my life. The euphoric blur of sinful fun often seems to out-shine the darkness it produces inside of us and that it produces for those in our lives as well. However, when I caught a glimpse of what it really was doing and chose Jesus; that fun stopped. A new and improved fun started that only brought good things to me and others around me. This fun was more fufilling than I ever imagined in so many ways.
I really hope my friend realizes what the fun in his life really is doing. Jesus brings so much fun and life to the soul plus some!
Hey Ian, I’ll be sure to keep your friend in my prayers that he comes to know Jesus… Your blog reminds me of my favorite tongue-twister bible verse from Romans 7:
For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.