Alien

9/8/2020

2 Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imagination and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God.”

Once we yield to Jesus, we are supposed to be aliens upon the earth, because the world no longer should hold anything for us. 1 Peter 2:11 (NIV) “Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul.” I, for one, have yet to totally abandon the draw of certain things in this world and release them to my Savior. Chambers writes, “It is only when God has altered our disposition and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily.” He goes on to say that we develop a spiritual character by a series of moral choices. This can only be truly accomplished by seeking the leading and power of the Holy Spirit in submission to God. It is a never-ending war between the soul and our human frailty. We can always explain away our behavior or actions by human justification: I was hurt, they were doing something wrong, I needed this or that, I just wanted to have a little fun, I didn’t realize, or even, I was just trying to help. Whenever I find myself using an excuse as an explanation or defense for not being in line with the Word of God, I must at once repent and ask for mercy. I have an obligation as a believer to vigilance in my faithfulness and relationship with Jesus. Chambers writes, “We can either go back and make ourselves of no account in the Kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these things and let Jesus bring another son to glory.”