Choosing Christ, Unendingly.

 Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

Gal 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

Gal 5:26  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 

Crucified the flesh.

Crucified the affections and lusts of the flesh.

Recognizing the flesh and the Spirit is so incredibly important. When we talk of crucifixion we automatically have an image of our Savior nailed to a cross where He suffered and died for us.  The crucifying was His being nailed to a cross.  

The dictionary also gives us this definition-

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

2. (v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.

3. (v. t.) To vex or torment.

From <https://biblehub.com/topical/c/crucify.htm> 

When we are told that if we are Christ's we have crucified our fleshy affections and lusts, we are destroying the power and influence those things have over our lives, we are subduing them completely.

Fleshy affections.

Fleshy lusts.

These come in so many forms and to all of us in many similar ways and yet many unique ways. My fleshy lusts may not be the same as yours, or they could be the same in one sense but not in another. Intensity and such are all factors but the bottom line- we have these fleshy affections and lusts that need to be subdued completely, they need to be crucified. 

We need to live in the SPIRIT and this is the only way for any sort of crucifixion of our affections and lusts to take place. 

Live in the SPIRIT, walk in the SPIRIT. Some will lay claim to living in the Spirit but their walk is not in the Spirit.  If we truly live in the SPIRIT we must be walking in the SPIRIT. 

The Spirit and the flesh are contrary to one another.  We choose. We must live in our bodies made of flesh with all its frailties and imperfections, but our bodies are receptacles of our minds and spirit. God will give us all we need, the Holy Spirit working in us, Christ in us is our hope, and clinging to these truths is where we find that hope of walking in the Spirit, by the Spirit, through the Spirit. We will not suddenly develop powers that allow us on our own to crucify our fleshy affections and lusts, we develop the truth, the Spirit of truth working and living in us. 

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

Gal 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

Gal 5:26  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 

We subdue completely the flesh, surrendering it all to Christ! And as we do this DAILY, we will be confronted with truth that it is a forever choosing, a constant unending choosing over the course of our entire lives. By the grace and mercy of God may we through Him and His power, by the Holy Spirit, all by our Heavenly Father and His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, may we be HIS, known by HIM now and forever! His perfection ours, for we have none without Him!