Thursday 2nd March, 2023
Read Galatians 5:16-24
“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.” (vv. 16-17)
Keep your relationship with the Holy Spirit healthy and you’ll find godliness to be the natural outflow of your life!
You feel the conflict in your life, don’t you? God’s Holy Spirit and your sinful nature “are opposed to each other,” and this causes conflict within you. You’re used to following your sinful, fallen human nature. God’s in the process of restoring your fallenness, of renewing his image in you.
But that renewal is nowhere near finished yet! So he’s put his Holy Spirit within you to enable you to live in a way that honours him. You can choose to live “by the Spirit” or by yourself.
Living by the Spirit means being responsive to his initiatives in your life. When he convicts you to stop doing what you are doing, you stop. When he puts it on your heart to pray for someone, you pray for them. When he speaks to you from his Word, you follow his lead. Then his power will flow in your life.
God’s inviting you to live a new way today—“by the Spirit.”
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