Secular society has no idea of the advantages God gives us
when we live our life dedicated to Him (1 Corinthians 2:14). The
only way they have of seeing Christ is when He is consistently manifested
through our life (John 14:19). If we claim the name of Christ
and live in compromise with the world, we actually cast a shadow over authentic
Christianity. It is only when the walking dead see an uncompromising difference
in us that they see the reality of a life in Christ. They come to a crossroads
where they will either accept Christ, or reject Him yet again as they continue
to walk in the darkness of Satan’s defeat.
The spiritual life is far richer than the carnal life (Romans
8:6-11). We maintain our spiritual life in Christ as we fellowship
with Him in prayer, in His Word and in His suffering. We walk in His faith
through prayer, we learn His character through His Word and we come to know Him
intimately through His suffering. He is the biographer and the fulfiller of our
faith (Hebrews 12:2). Our whole life is based on our trust in Him (Romans
1:17). He is our confidence, our expectancy and our fulfillment (2
Corinthians 3:4).
Through Christ, we are reborn by the Spirit of God and have everlasting life through faith in God’s faithfulness (John 3:8, 17:3). The Spiritual life not only drenches our spirit with the indwelling Spirit of God, it also infiltrates our soul – our mind, will and emotions - through sanctification. Whoever is born of the flesh is flesh, but whomever is born of the Spirit of God is Spirit (John 3:6). Christ is our very life and He works in us through His indwelling Spirit (Colossians 3:4).
The mind controlled by the Spirit of God is full of life
and peace (Romans 8:6). The emotions controlled by the
Spirit of God mirror His spiritual fruit (Galatians 5:22-23). The
choices controlled by the Spirit of God come from justice and holiness and reap
righteousness (Proverbs 14:27). We shall never thirst, because
His river of living water flows through us and out into the world around us (John
7:38). The soul possessed by the Spirit of God blossoms as a rose in the
desert (Isaiah 35:1).
We, who are born of God, partake in the divine nature of
God through Christ who dwells within us (2 Peter 1:4). We
possess the fullest measure of Christ within us (Colossians 2:9; Ephesians
3:19). Since Jesus lives within us, we can face tomorrow with hope in our
heart and joy in our soul (Jeremiah 29:11). He helps us never to compromise
with the world. We will never experience the second death; because at
salvation, we moved instantaneously from the earthly realm into the heavenly
one.
Prayer:
Father God, while we live on this earth, You will cover us
with Your feathers and under Your wings we trust that nothing will come against
us that can ever irreversibly harm us. You are our shield to protect us from
Satan’s arrows that fly by day; and his plagues, which come in the night; and
his destructiveness, which comes at noon. Even if thousands fall all around us,
we shall still stand because Your protection hold us up in Your hand (Psalm 91). Remind
us that a spiritual mind is much more precious to You and to us than a fleshly
one.
Thought for the Day:
A carnal mind is worse than a body containing a spirit,
which dead in sin, because it limits God’s divine power from working in and
through us.