I have been seeing a lot of flesh vs. spirit lately, just going about my life (both online and off), so it’s been heavy on my mind lately in various aspects. Then when I woke up this morning I had a strong inspiration from the Spirit to start studying. I looked up verses and Christian writings and was quite surprised at what I learned.
I won’t go into all the details…but so much of my Christian life (since March 7, 1976) I have heard and read that the carnal man (carnal = meat = flesh) is one who “accepted Christ” – topic for another post – but didn’t have a change of heart, or didn’t exhibit any change in his life. But still went to heaven because he had “accepted Christ”. I have at times, when in the Word, read something that caused me to question this. Then lately the entire subject has been at the forefront of my thoughts, and things have been happening that brings it up over and over again.
Well God was getting my attention, and it worked. And today I did some delving. I will be doing a lot more too. But I want to share bits of what I have found today – not necessarily what I expected – in my typical easy-to-read, easy-bite-off, easy-to-swallow style. So I’m off to a good start as I pray and study my way through this. It is my hope that what I’m finding may be of interest to others as well!
I found these helpful as well…so decided to include them too.
One can be married, I suppose, and still fool around. It doesn’t sound like much of a marriage to me.
For me, marriage is not trying to see how far I can get away from my wife and still be married. Rather, my goal is to see how CLOSE I can get.
Same with my relationship with God. I am not even interested in finding the edge. The middle is exactly what I want.
Great points, Don! I think when we are just trying to get into heaven/avoid the alternative without having to sacrifice the things we want, that’s one of the biggest indications that our heart isn’t in the right place. At all.