Spirit Man - A New Creation in Christ

The blessing of the Gospel is about believing God's Word.  We either believe in His blood or we do not.  We either believe that when we received not only the message of our salvation, but also HIM through God's Gift of the Holy Spirit or we do not.

There's more though.  God opened the revelation of His Son to especially Paul, the Apostle.  What did He reveal?  That God's Son is the New Man, the New Creation of God - Adam had to be crucified and Jesus became the Lamb to do so.

Old things really are passed away.  But we are not going to get that information by sight.  Every day we hear about murders, fightings, wars, domestic violence, abortions, sins of all degrees.  By sight, it does not look like anything old has passed away.

But we are not people who walk by sight.  We are faith people.  We walk by Truth.  God's Spirit in us gives witness to our spirits that we are in the Kingdom of the Son of God's love.  We are free from sin's power and dominion.  We are in Christ.  We have His Holy Spirit.  We are being guided, because we are now SONS of the living God.  We are waiting for God's Son.  We will receive immortal bodies like that of our Lord's.  We are forgiven.  We have obtained an inheritance in Christ - we are joint-heirs with Him.  He is in charge of the total inheritance, but we are under Him.  We are beloved of God - called His children, His saints, His people.

The list goes on and on.  There is only one thing to me that is lacking in people I see and talk with sometimes.  Faith.  Believing God.  This is the cure and hope we have - is to keep our eyes on Jesus Christ and what God has revealed.

So I think the minute we trail off onto arguments of different sorts, we curtail joy and peace in believing - we put the "kink in the hose," so to speak.  We quench God's Spirit WHO Himself is joy, life, and peace. 

We all know there are LOTS of problems on this earth.  There are LOTS of problems with flesh and blood.  Yet we can learn from the Lord HOW to walk in His Spirit and keep our eyes off flesh and find His supernatural peace in this fallen world.  I mean He did say, "My peace I give to you, not as the world gives..."

It really is an individual thing to stomp out "forest fires."  Brings back a memory of Yogi Bear saying, "You can help to prevent forest fires..."

Fires of all sorts.  Let's see - that sounds like something out of the Bible:  "Holding up the shield up faith whereby you are able to quench the fiery darts of the evil one..."

We have SO much to praise and worship God over - it's not hard.  It just takes our focus back to believing God's Word and rejoicing in the spirit.

Rejoicing with you,

Sue Gaither