When you start out on a journey you are wise to have prepared for the trip. Plan the journey, store up provisions, check out your resources. The interesting fact about the Christian life, however, is that from the moment when you are saved, you are already on a journey that you haven’t been able to prepare for.
Indeed, before you began, you had no idea you would even take the trip.
So, that means you have a lot of catching up to do. What, ideally, you would have done before setting out, you must now do while already on the road. In some ways that makes it harder; in others easier. Either way, it’s the reality that you must deal with.
For one thing, you must realize the implications of Romans 8:8:
“Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”
To be “in the flesh” is a phrase describing you before you became a Christian. It means that you had nothing better than your own sinful human ways to deal with life. Now, of course, you have God’s Word and the power of the Spirit at Work within to enable you to follow it.
But since, you
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