let's suppose that you have some difficult and distressing habit like drinking too much and you're assured that once you've become the victim of this habit it's an extraordinarily difficult thing to get rid of it and it requires intense willpower and so that kills you right off you're a dead duck from then on it's as if you see you had said to the devil one morning look i'm going to get rid of you i'm not going to have anything to do with you anymore so the devil who is an archangel and this terribly clever is all set for you and because he knows that you are getting out of his way he surrounds you with greater temptations than you ever imagined if you are going to outwit the devil it's terribly important that you don't give him any advance notice
