Galatians 5:16-18
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
The Spirit or flesh? Which do we allow to lead us and control us? If we choose to yield to God’s Spirit living in us, then we find ourselves not choosing to live for our own self serving desires. We become God-pleasers. The struggle is very real of the fleshly desires of our Adamic fallen nature as it rails against the Spirit in continued rebellion, even after being set free from the Law of sin and death! This struggle within is not the little devil and angel on our shoulders as some want us to believe, but the new against the old, and we often end up doing what we know we don’t want to. But the answer is in yielding to the Spirit to lead us, not our own wants. It is a daily choice and direction adjustment of our souls.
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