The Spirit He sent us and the grace He merited for us can give us the courage and strength to withstand the world and all its enticements. You have stripped off your old behavior with your old self, and you have put on a new self which will progress towards knowledge the more it is renewed in the image of its Creator. How great is the mercy of God. He not only hounds us to repent, but gives us a whole new creation within our souls. Such a change does repentance spark, that the soul grows into a clear image of its Creator, from a life of misery, hopelessness, slavery and guilt, to one of joy, trust, freedom and self-control.
Darkness gives way to light, passion to virtue, sadness to joy.
We are well aware of the effect of evil upon our souls. Perhaps we need to meditate on the necessity of goodness, so we may choose the right course and fulfill the purpose of our creation. The faculty of the soul that we call Memory is the one most worked upon by the world, the flesh and the devil. The Memory is like a computer it stores everything that passes through the five senses. It takes these impressions and enhances them by the imagination and the results can be tragic if we are not discerning.