It is my belief that we all struggle in our understanding the depth and magnitude of God's love for us. For his love is so perfect that it is impossible for the human mind to grasp such glorious perfection. 2Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." It is this challenge we face daily as believers to walk in the spirit that we not give into the desires of the flesh. The flesh or natural man wants to live and have it's way, but as followers of Christ we must hold to our faith that we are now a new creation, as the natural man has been crucified with Christ, and Christ now lives in and through us. Galatians 2:20 " I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
The old nature, the natural man tries continually to rise up from the dead, hoping that we are too distracted to realize that he has risen. There are often times we are caught in this trap of distraction, which takes our eyes off of Jesus our Lord, that we may focus our eyes to the cares of this world, causing us to forget that we are a new being, a spiritual being. 2Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new Creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new." When we make a choice for Christ, we choose life. That which we walked in before was death, subject to the God of this world. BEHOLD we are a completely new creation in Christ. This means that we have a new way of thinking, talking and acting and it is just like Christ. For it is the very spirit that raised Jesus from the dead that has raised us up also anew, and has come to live in those of us who have chosen life. Romans 8:11 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."
You are now a Spiritual being having a natural experience just as Jesus was in the earth, so are you.
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