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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: Although, as I have said, inwardly, and according to the spirit,
a man is amply enough justified by faith, having all that he
requires to have, except that this very faith and abundance ought
to increase from day to day, even till the future life, still he
remains in this mortal life upon earth, in which it is necessary
that he should rule his own body and have intercourse with men.
Here then works begin; here he must not take his ease; here he
must give heed to exercise his body by fastings, watchings,
labour, and other regular discipline, so that it may be subdued
to the spirit, and obey and conform itself to the inner man and
faith, and not rebel against them nor hinder them, as is its
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