You must be willing to tell the doctor what's wrong if you want the doctor to make it right.

A Dr. Tony Evans says it's no different with the great physician.

We must face our sin if we want to see God's solutions.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Humans are both physical and spiritual beings.

Today Dr. Evans looks at how satisfying your spiritual appetite is sometimes best accomplished by saying no to your physical one.

Let's join him as he explains.

There was a forester who was known for how well he could chop down trees.

And along came a very young man who had great ability and great strength.

And he noticed all the attention that this older forester was being given for his ability to chop down trees.

And he knew he was a lot younger and a lot stronger and wanted the clout to come to him.

He challenged the older forester.

He said, look, I know your reputation, but I'm here now.

I'm a lot younger, stronger.

And I'm pretty sure I could get many more trees chopped than you can given your age, your weakness.

I challenge you.

And so the duel was on.

The young man went at it.

And every few moments, every interim, the older man would go and sit down by a stump of a tree, then get up and start chopping again.

But the young man never stopped.

Never stopped.

He kept going and going and going and going.

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