Saturday, 09 June 2012
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In Flesh and In Spirit
When we do what our flesh wants we lose what our soul wants.
Eating worldly food does not make our spiritual stomach satisfied. Just like spiritual food does not satisfy that hunger for that nice juicy steak. Your worldly hunger does not always have to be food. It may be money, power, sex, positional items, glory, comfort, 'friends' (popularity), or even looking attractive.
Spiritual hunger is always intertwined with god and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t have those two things your spiritual body will die. When you feed your worldly body with worldly things and don’t worry about your spiritual well being, the Holy Spirit will wither away and become faint, and God’s voice will eventually seem very small and insignificant.
That is when the crap will happen. That is when you fall of the 'doing the right thing' truck and land on the hard pavement only to be smashed by the semi of horrible experiences.Feed your spirit, and safety, wisdom and knowledge, will follow you wherever your path may take you, for Jesus will always stay by your side to guide you.
Do you feel like your flesh is sometimes waging a battle against your spirit? How often do you feed your spiritual hunger before your fleshly hunger?
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Furthermore, "9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. " Romans 8:9-11
We are not in the flesh, but the Spirit, IF the Spirit of Christ Jesus dwells in you.
If you are trying to do "spiritual things", but cannot and find yourself, instead, doing fleshly things, that is a sign that you are not born again of the Spirit by the resurrection of Christ.
The Spirit of the Mighty God cannot dwell in you and you be unaware of Him!
@dustysojourner@xanga - i really like that scripture. i was having trouble finding it lately. thank you!
What do you mean by "soul"? Man is a mélange of physical and psychological needs.
I would suggest that the hunger for power or glory and the like, are spiritual hungers of a kind. I suppose it depends on what one defines as spiritual.
"Spiritual hunger is always intertwined with god and the Holy Spirit. If you don’t have those two things your spiritual body will die."
It is probably just the way you worded it but according to Trinitarianism, God and the Holy Spirit are one "thing" not two.
Are you suggesting that Christians who are close to God, so to speak, will avoid "horrible experiences"? That's not how history reveals it.
"Feed your spirit, and safety, wisdom and knowledge, will follow you wherever your path may take you, for Jesus will always stay by your side to guide you."
That hasn't mean my experience of the more outspoken Christians, outspoken being a synonym for evangelical fundamentalists.
You make this sound like feeding our spiritual selves is something we can easily delve into. Maybe it's that way for some, but for me, even with time spent on my knees, tears falling by the wayside, I still to battle with my spiritual side. I doesn't just stay with me because I pray for it, and because I try to be a good person. This is one of those issues I think we need to keep constantly in the forefront of our brains, lest we find ourselves slipping, and thinking ill of others, forgetting to pray, and not being in community with Christ. And the more outspoken Christians might not necessarily be filled with the spirit. They might just be running their mouths with their own agenda.