After God pleads with us to come away from sin and her influences in Rev18:4, in Rev18:7b-19 Jesus describes three basic reasons that we will not respond to His Plea & tend to hang on to sin & it’s old desires & habits! The 1st is 7b where “in her heart (root of sin in us) she BOASTS, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow, & I will never morn’”.This describes an ARROGANCE&INDEPENDENCE that denies TRUTH & accepts UNtruths about life and the real consequences of sin for our lives....arrogantly refusing to seek Almighty God for HIS Help in learning TRUTHS of what life is all about! The 2nd is a worldly sense of AFFLUENCE/PLEASURES/SUCCESSES that are all temporal, & not having little Eternal Significance!->Rev18:11-15, ”The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her (sin’s desires & temporal successes) because no one buys their cargoes any more....They will say, ‘the fruit(riches&successes)you longed for is gone from you. All your RICHES and SPLENDOR have vanished’...the merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her (temporal/lustful roots of desire) will stand far off, terrified at her torment (their personal torment from a life built on life paradigms producing things/successes that do not last forever).” We succumb to this 2nd basic reason when we do not do as Romans12:2 begs us to do->”Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”! The attachment we feel to the riches & pleasures of this world will draw us away from the Peace and Joys that surpass all understanding that The LORD desperately desires us to have! The 3rd reason is living a life seeking what boils down to a FALSE SENSE of SECURITY ; living to find the comforts and securities defined by the people & world around us, instead of seeking the ETERNAL SECURITIES of living life according to what God Says is “putting up treasures(SECURITIES) in Heaven that last forever”-as Jesus says in Matthew6:19-20, ”Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”! In other words, our sense of security needs to be ETERNALLY BASED, and NOT based on paradigms of security that last a defined period of time! In these verses Jesus breaks down the challenges we all personally face in seeking & following Him faithfully, & and thereby having a life filled with HIS Peace and Joy that surpasses all understanding!->The ONLY Peace and Joy that stands firm when all sorts of calamities come around and even into our lives, & the only Peace & Joy that will last forever! Dear Lord, these verses remind me that I have all of these challenges in my life to one degree or another- I have a part of me that is motivated by ARROGANCE&INDEPENDENCE; I am influenced by a worldly sense of AFFLUENCE/PLEASURES/SUCCESSES; and I tend to lean toward the  FALSE SENSE of SECURITY defined by the world instead of totally leaning on YOU. Lord Jesus, I pray that You open my eyes to see these things more clearly in me...so I can ask You to help me through Your Word and Your Spirit to continuously correct these in my life so all of me may be aligned with Your desire for me to cling to only You for all of my life’s Security, Peace & Joys!