Most of the time when I undertake to write these blogs, it is from a place of having something to share when things are going well, when I feel “together,” when I feel God prompting me and teaching me things I want to pass on in some way. However, there are times when life gets messy, when things are hard, when things don’t make sense. It is during these times when I press deeper into God, that I understand even more of His character and cling to His promises in ways yet undiscovered.
One of the things about God that I have marveled at for many years, is that we can search and search, and never come to the end of all He is, of all that there is to be discovered about Him and his glorious nature. We can read certain passages, and His word seems to jump out at us, whereas we may have read the same passage many times before without this particular kind of insight. I was reading in Romans 8 this morning, and a verse spoke to me at my core.
Romans 8:6 tells us “the mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace (emphasis mine). I began to ponder just how much of our own misery comes because we fail to operate, live, and think, by and through the Spirit. When our focus is continually on our own desires, and how to have them met, there is little room for things of the Spirit – the thoughts and actions that will lead to life and peace. There is such power in our thoughts, and the things with which we feed and fuel our minds. Proverbs 23:7 tells us, “As a man thinks, so is he.” Whatever we give space to in our minds, in our thoughts, soon becomes our world and our reality. I take Jesus at his word when he says in John 10 that “the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy.” The Enemy of our souls wants to steal our identity in God, our very purpose. But Jesus said that He comes to give us life – life to the full. Real life. Real purpose. Real peace.
Don’t let the enemy break in and steal what is rightfully yours. We can have peace and life– by His Spirit.
Life By The Way 