From the Garden of Eden, our DNA has been altered. We were made in the image of God, but were remade into the image of the serpent. Our fangs and scales are our sins and the toil of this life that keeps us from the presence of God. The Bible shows us through the Old Testament that humanity will never be able to scrape off our own scales or remove our own fangs, and that the Enemy has made its home in our bones. The New Testament proclaims that Jesus has defeated and crushed the serpent's head, but most of us don't live like that radical reality is true. We have learned to coexist with the serpent in our hearts, giving Jesus just enough to get by. But we are called to be like Jesus. Jesus' death and life were acts of serpent crushing, and we are called to be serpent crushers. Spiritual disciplines are our cure and tools to win battles in a war that is already won.