Christianity in the News | Struggle for Christians

This becomes a daily activity by which you decide who’s going to live your life for you today.

Are you going to live in the flesh, or is Jesus going to have the prerogative of living His life thru you?

Folk have different terms for the “flesh,” but simply put, it’s the standard part of each person that wants to operate in opposition to God. It sometimes reveals itself by challenging the limitations the Lord set for humankind’s good. We’ll always have this fleshly nature, but we do not have to live by it, and we do not have to submit to it. Why? As we have the Holy Spirit living inside. When he indwells us, we possess 2 mindsets – the mind of the Spirit leading toward God and the mind of the flesh leading away from Him.

Because these 2 ways of thinking are against one another, conflict and warfare result. We are in a genuine battle, which needs real weapons. We have got the helmet of deliverance so that we won’t surrender our minds to the flesh. The breastplate of goodness protects our feelings from giving way to natural wants. We put on the belt of truth, which enables us to stroll truthfully instead of in the flesh.
There’s a real shield of religion because there are real darts of doubt. To explain, we are at war, but we are well supplied for it.