day no. 15,106: sin is not just sitting and waiting to be sanctified

"At its most basic, strategy is a matter of figuring out what we need to achieve, determining the best way to use the resources at our disposal to achieve it, and then executing the plan. Unfortunately, in the real world, all of these things are not easily done. Our strategic goals are complex and sometimes contradictory and may change in the middle of a military endeavor. The resources at our disposal are not always obvious, can change during the course of a struggle, and usually need to be adapted to suit our needs. Our adversary often refuses to fit our preconceptions of him or to stand still while we erect the apparatus for his destruction." -- MCDP 1-1: Strategy

Strategy is a threefold beast:
(1) what needs to be achieved
(2) what resources are at your disposal and which, used what way, best achieve (1)
(3) employing the use of (2) in order to accomplish (1)

God has given us principles upon which we can rely and He has given us practices based upon those principles. He has given us our mission and our methods need to be derived from the mission. Our methods, however, need to be flexible enough to achieve our mission as the battlefield changes. Our battlefield is sometimes changed by God above and other times by our enemy across the line. Our enemies are not static figures being operated on until we can accomplish our desires. They have desires of their own and are not merely waiting around for us to figure out how to defeat them.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11
Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

Sin is not in a holding cell waiting its execution, it is wild and out and about attempting to achieve its own ends in your life and the world around you. Your strategy for fighting the world, the flesh and the devil must be rooted in God's unchanging mission and principles put into motion through timely methods and changing practices adapting to the landscape as it changes.

Sin is not just sitting and waiting to be sanctified as it turns out. It resists being brought to the light. It refuses to be tamed. A man of God must employ a strategy that takes that into account and trusts in the providence and principles of God to provide final victory.