YOU CAN FLY!

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  -  Rom 7:15

We all have this trouble. You can do everything right and still not defeat a sin, or wind up doing something wrong. You can read your Bible every day, pray, have a group of friends around you who’ll speak the truth in love to you on a regular basis, assemble with Christians at every opportunity and still - get caught up in sin.

You can have all the right equipment to accomplish a job or a task, but if you do not have the experience, right attitude, etc. about it, it still will not work. One of the things my Dad taught me to do when I was little was how to take apart and reassemble carburetors. Dutifully, I did so having all of the right tools and putting each thing back in place exactly where it had come from. Yet, it still didn't work right.  Why? Because I didn't have the experience and the spirit to know how to make the proper adjustments to it.  

To defeat habitual sin in your life, it is the same principle. You can have all the right equipment, do all the right things, even put them in the right places!  But, it won’t matter without the Holy Spirit and God's presence there with you in the process.  Suppose you were walking on the beach and saw a dead seagull that had died less than a minute earlier. If you picked the bird up it wouldn't be much different than its live counterparts. It would  still be warm, have the same muscles, bones, feathers, and wings. But if you toss it up in the sky, it’ll drop right back down to the ground, because there is no life in the equipment. It  isn't in the feathers, wings, or bones that make the bird, it is the life God puts in it. Without God in your heart and the desire to be with God and have God be in you with every fiber of your being - your spirit won't fly, even if it has all the right equipment. It is the Spirit of God living within us, beating in our hearts, and our love for Him with all that we are and have, that makes our lives successful and empowers us to overcome sin. 

At the end of the day, you can’t depend upon yourself and what you can do to defeat sin. You need the Holy Spirit’s power, Christ's love and blood, and God's forgiveness.  

 I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.  For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another; lest whatever you may will, these things you do. - Gal.5:16,17

Do you allow God's Spirit to live through you? Are you trying to overcome a wrong in your life, or change your life, but afraid of the Holy Spirit’s power in your life?  That fear, is the evil one telling you that you can't do what God is calling you to do - that you don't have the capability. What God is telling you is to let go and trust Him - and you can FLY!

Jim