Dear Church Family –
Thanks for another great day in church yesterday! One of the things we talked about yesterday was Galatians 5:16, “Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.”
A few years ago, I came across some helpful teaching about how to walk in the Spirit. This is from Mark Vroegop, a pastor in Indianapolis. He said,
“To walk in the Spirit is a Spirit-dependent way of life that involves…
1. Believing the promises of God
2. Choosing to do what is right
3. Thanking God for the result”
Under the surface of the sea, or lakes, is a world very different from our world on land. There is different animal life and plant life. It’s a world of swimming, rather than walking, and it’s a world that is hostile to land-dwellers. We are not made to survive under water.
But divers carry tanks of air on their backs. They take some of the environment of their home world with them into the hostile world, and that is the only way to survive.
This present, physical world we live in is hostile to the life of the spirit. It’s hostile to walking in the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit.
“…walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.” (Gal 5:16-17)
But God has given us His Spirit. God’s Spirit supplies the “environment” of heaven in our lives so that we can survive in this world. “Walking in the Spirit” is living in this world by breathing the air of God’s world.
Thanks for your walk with God and in the Spirit. Thanks for bringing a little bit of the atmosphere of heaven into our world every day.
Because of Christ – Pastor Tim
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