My Today's Thoughts

I have an inside world that is made up of the different parts of my inner being: the heart, soul, mind, spirit, will, intellect and emotions. It is the life that goes on inside of me: thoughts, feelings, attitudes, sentiments and opinions. During my struggles with me inside and facing temptations, I have learned that I should not be looking at my inadequacies because obviously, they will always be there. I need to be looking at my adequacy in the Holy Spirit, which will always be in me. Over the years, I have been focusing on my limitations or circumstances as an excuse for not moving on rather than using the Holy Spirit to move on. I am going to have to learn to measure myself how I pray and what goes on in my heart. There have been the same cycle of learning and forgetting, sinning and repenting that tells me I am not submitting myself to the Holy Spirit. I am learning that prayer is the key to my spiritual struggles because I have not been keeping in close touch with God spiritually. Prayfully, I am dependent on Christ as the branches are to the vine. In order for me to avoid my spiritual struggles, I need to open myself to Him with all of my heart, mind and soul. God can only use me who have limitations, which are weaknesses that the believer inherited or has no power to change, such as a physical disability or an emotional disability or an intellectual disability. This is God's design, and it pleases Him to do so that I can rely on the Holy Spirit. "Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."--Matt. 26:41. Maybe I am not the only one with spiritual selective hearing which means I only want to hear that benefits me because of my human nature rather than my spiritual nature. Biblically, Christians are no longer "in the flesh": "You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him" (Rom 8:9). The Greek word for "dwells" is okv (oike), which means "I inhabit." "If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness" (Romans 8:10). In other words, my human body is subject to death (and is already dying) because of sin, however my spirit is alive in Christ. I have eternal life in my possession. Even though my body is dying because of sin, but as a Christian, my spirit is fully alive and thriving "because of righteousness"--because he is justified and therefore already has "passed out of death into life" (John 5:24). My temorary body is decaying at the same time, my inner being is being renewed day by day (2 Cor 4:16). "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Galatians 5:25. The Holy Spirit dwells in me with all the power and gifts of God, necessary to enable me to walk the noble, spiritual, Son-like life with God.