Daily devotions – Saturday 10th April 2021
When God created man, there was a beautiful connection between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God, as Adam and God walked together in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day – Genesis 3:8.
But when Adam gave into his flesh and ate the forbidden fruit, he allowed his body – the material aspect of his nature – to assume predominance over his spirit, thereby severing his direct communion with God’s Spirit.
The unsaved person is alive physically, but dead spiritually.
The inner man is dead toward God and does not respond to the things of the Spirit.
He or she may be moral, they may be religious, but they lack spiritual life.
They need “the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”
“Romans 8: 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”
To be carnally minded is death – but to be spiritually minded is life.
If my body controls my thoughts, I am carnally minded and cannot please God.
King Solomon wondered what life is all about.
He tried everything – great wealth, he had over 700 hundred wives and 300 concubines, he pursued academia, …he became a botanist, a biologist, an ichthyologist…studied philosophy….tried partying….fame….Solomon had and tried everything!
He found all of this empty!
After 12 years of women, money, power, philosophy, Solomon said, “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” Ecc 12:13
From that time on Solomon was known as the “Preacher.”
Those who have trusted Christ enjoy “peace with God”, while the unsaved are at WAR with God.
There is no peace, says the Lord, unto the wicked – Isaiah 48:22
You are either pleasing yourself or pleasing God!
Jesus said – Mat 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
To be in the flesh means to be lost, outside Christ.
The unsaved person lives to please himself and rarely if ever thinks about pleasing God!
The root of sin is selfishness – “I will” and not “Thy will!”
The question is, what is going to control my mind? Is it going to be the spirit, as my spirit is linked to God’s Spirit?
As the day unfolds, will I be a spiritual man or woman?
Or am I going to be carnal, wondering, “Where am I going to go? How am I going to be entertained? What am I going to eat?
Or am I now going to live my life to please God in everything I do and think?