How important is your spiritual life?

Remember.

So incredibly much in our lives depends upon our ability to remember things.  Those far gone in Alzheimer's or other memory robbing dementias lose the ability to take care of their most basic needs. The forget to eat and drink, two vital components to being able to live.  If we had no memory we wouldn't be able to care for ourselves at all. Remembering the things vital for our flesh life doesn't seem to be too much of a problem for most people. Remembering things vital for our spirit life seem incredible hard for most people.  In fact a lot of people refuse to even believe they have a spirit life, and in truth they may not if they have not been born again in the Spirit.  Those who have been born again in the Spirit are taking on the responsibility of having a spiritual life to either nurture or kill. 

Tell me which life is more important- the flesh life or the spiritual life?

Rom_8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Rom 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Rom 8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Rom 8:8  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Rom 8:10  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Rom 8:11  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Rom 8:12  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Doesn't that say it all? Seriously, doesn't it? The truth is right there for us to see!

The SPIRITUAL life matters more than the flesh life!

Yet which one of us would be willing to give up a meal in order to feed the spirit?

You might quickly say you can do both, you don't need to give up a meal, but that's not the point at all. The point is...how important is your spiritual life to you? Seriously, HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE!?

Do you even care about feeding your spiritual life?

Do you expect someone else to feed you your spiritual food, making it their responsibility to feed you so you don't have to take on that responsibility yourself?

Do you starve your spiritual life by feeding it only once a week?

We have to feed our Spiritual life.

Going back a moment to yesterday's study, Christ can't know us if we don't have a REAL relationship with Him, a REAL SPIRITUAL relationship.

More on this tomorrow, by the GRACE and MERCY of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST now and forever, amen.