I Timothy 6:11- “But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness.” If you want to run from something lesser, the easiest way to do it is to run to something greater. It’s never enough just to run from sin - you’ve got to replace it. You have to run to something greater, something better. In today’s Scripture that is exactly what the Apostle Paul was telling Timothy to do. And it turns out to be an incredibly effective plan for dealing with the sin in our lives that we’ve become attached to and defeated by. Saying “No” to it is never enough. We fight it best by saying “Yes” to something better. Thomas Chalmers, a Scottish Minister of the 1800’s, was famous for saying it this way: “the only way to dispossess it (the heart) of an old affection, is by the expulsive power of a new one.” That “new affection” for us is Jesus Christ. As we learn to receive His wondrous, life-giving love and then to love Him in return, we will be practicing this principle. You can’t run towards sin and run towards Jesus at the same time. Sin brings death. Jesus gives life. To break the power of our sin habit we need to continually practice running in the right direction - running from our sin and running to the love of Jesus and to all that He is and all that He wants for us. So the obvious question is this: is Jesus truly greater and better to us than the sin that tempts us? If He is, then we will run to Him, and we’ll experience for ourselves this “expulsive power of a new affection”.