'If the Christian does not relentlessly oppose his traditional Way of thinking he shall unconsciously turn back to it. As he needs to deny the Work of the flesh and daily follow the spirit, so he must resist the old mental Way and daily think according to the renewed mind. Such vigilance is absolutely essential; otherwise he Will return to his old state.
Retrogression is all too possible in spiritual life. Unless a child of God is watchful following his mental renewal, he can still believe in the enemy’s lie and once again through passivity give him ground. In order that he may maintain his mind continually in the renewed
state, it being renewed day by day, he needs to appropriate its laws.'
(((My thoughts- DAILY. There are several things we do daily- every single day - some with rare exceptions. Every day we eat- unless we are fasting for person, religious reasons or through illness or other deliberate reasons. Every day our bodies demand we do various things, they follow the physical law of our existence. Every day we drink, again very rarely do we not drink some sort of liquid every day. Then there are things we choose to do daily through being taught as part of our upbringing- such as bathe, or wash up, brush teeth, comb hair, put clothing on, you understand what I mean. We form routines. Some people in this electronic, information technology, internet world have to do various things online every single day- they've become habits. None of this is to say that there are exceptions to these things. The majority of people have DAILY habits of living, there are very few people whose day to day life doesn't contain anything repetitive.
DAILY- prayer, study. DAILY- choice making.
We have to choose purposefully to commit our actions. We choose whether or not to eat on any particular day. We choose what we will do every day. Will we work? Will we shop? Will we walk, run, dance? Will we go to school? Our existence is FILLED with choice making.
Why do we for a single moment believe that we don't have to make choices daily in our spiritual life?
How could Jesus pray this prayer-
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
- if we weren't to pray daily?
Spirituality is much more than a daily prayer. Spirituality is a way of life, the life of having hope, having faith in a better land, not of this world. Having a REAL hope of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Spirituality is cognitively thought about all the time, not once in a while.))))
Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding (((HEART)))) being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints
'“The eyes of your heart” points figuratively to the organ of our reasoning and understanding, that is, our mind. In this passage the word “know” or “knowledge”—used twice—serves to convey two distinctive notions: the first one is a knowing intuitively, the second is a knowing or understanding mentally.
This spirit of revelation is located in the depth of our being. God reveals Himself to our spirit that we may truly apprehend Him by our intuition.
Thus far, however, this is but intuitive knowledge; that is to say, the inner man knows while the outer man remains ignorant. The communication to the outward man of what has been known by the inward man is an indispensable step, the lack of which prevents united action by the inner and outer man together. How then can there be this communication?
The Scripture informs us that our spirit will enlighten our mental faculty to make it understand the meaning of the revelation in the intuition. Since our outward man depends on the mind in order to comprehend things, the spirit must convey what it knows intuitively to the mind so that the latter can deliver the message to the entire being and enable the child of God to walk according to the spirit.'
More on that tomorrow, by the GRACE and WILL of our Savior, Jesus Christ now and forever!
Retrogression is all too possible in spiritual life. Unless a child of God is watchful following his mental renewal, he can still believe in the enemy’s lie and once again through passivity give him ground. In order that he may maintain his mind continually in the renewed
state, it being renewed day by day, he needs to appropriate its laws.'
(((My thoughts- DAILY. There are several things we do daily- every single day - some with rare exceptions. Every day we eat- unless we are fasting for person, religious reasons or through illness or other deliberate reasons. Every day our bodies demand we do various things, they follow the physical law of our existence. Every day we drink, again very rarely do we not drink some sort of liquid every day. Then there are things we choose to do daily through being taught as part of our upbringing- such as bathe, or wash up, brush teeth, comb hair, put clothing on, you understand what I mean. We form routines. Some people in this electronic, information technology, internet world have to do various things online every single day- they've become habits. None of this is to say that there are exceptions to these things. The majority of people have DAILY habits of living, there are very few people whose day to day life doesn't contain anything repetitive.
DAILY- prayer, study. DAILY- choice making.
We have to choose purposefully to commit our actions. We choose whether or not to eat on any particular day. We choose what we will do every day. Will we work? Will we shop? Will we walk, run, dance? Will we go to school? Our existence is FILLED with choice making.
Why do we for a single moment believe that we don't have to make choices daily in our spiritual life?
How could Jesus pray this prayer-
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
- if we weren't to pray daily?
Spirituality is much more than a daily prayer. Spirituality is a way of life, the life of having hope, having faith in a better land, not of this world. Having a REAL hope of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! Spirituality is cognitively thought about all the time, not once in a while.))))
Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding (((HEART)))) being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints
'“The eyes of your heart” points figuratively to the organ of our reasoning and understanding, that is, our mind. In this passage the word “know” or “knowledge”—used twice—serves to convey two distinctive notions: the first one is a knowing intuitively, the second is a knowing or understanding mentally.
This spirit of revelation is located in the depth of our being. God reveals Himself to our spirit that we may truly apprehend Him by our intuition.
Thus far, however, this is but intuitive knowledge; that is to say, the inner man knows while the outer man remains ignorant. The communication to the outward man of what has been known by the inward man is an indispensable step, the lack of which prevents united action by the inner and outer man together. How then can there be this communication?
The Scripture informs us that our spirit will enlighten our mental faculty to make it understand the meaning of the revelation in the intuition. Since our outward man depends on the mind in order to comprehend things, the spirit must convey what it knows intuitively to the mind so that the latter can deliver the message to the entire being and enable the child of God to walk according to the spirit.'
More on that tomorrow, by the GRACE and WILL of our Savior, Jesus Christ now and forever!
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