Hi, I'm Erwin McManus, and this is the Mosaic podcast.

I want to thank you so much for joining us today.

And if you're one of our regular listeners, we love the fact that you join you with us,

and we pray that every single message inspires you and helps you become the person that God

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Have you ever felt as if you were a paradox?

That there were different versions of you living inside of you and you're not sure which version of you is you. That even as you are pressing forward in life and living out every day and fighting

and struggling and working to become the person you longed to become, to become the ideal

version of you, that there just

seems to be all of these setbacks.

And sometimes we can blame those circumstances or situations or obstacles or environments.

But most of the time, we step back and realize that the biggest struggle and the biggest battle

for us becoming the person

we long to become are all within. It's almost as if it's the enemy within who wars against

us as we struggle and fight and pursue the best version of ourselves.

And there seems to be almost this tension within us, the battle between darkness and light,

between good and evil,

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