TUG OF WAR

The daily tug of war you experience in our daily living is rooted within you and is the tug of war between your flesh (sin) nature and God’s Spirit in you [read James 4:1].  Jesus set us free through the payment He made to, on, and through the cross [read John 8:36].  He paid for our freedom (the burden of law for our sins).  We are called to live a life on earth that reflects this freedom He paid for through our thoughts, words and actions [2 Corinthians 3:17].  To live with this freedom in our thoughts, words and actions and not to live within the burden of the law of sin despite our sin nature [read Romans 7:21-25, 1 Peter 2:16, & Psalm 119:45]. All that we think, do and say is subject to this tug of war [read Galatians 5:1].    When my sin nature wins the tug,  my thoughts, words and actions move out of God’s Will and I become a slave to sin despite the freedom I have in Jesus and despite the strength I get in Jesus [read Romans 8:20-21].  When my flesh wins, I put on my old coat of sin covering up the new coat that Jesus gave me at my salvation [read Luke 5:36-39].  When I side with God’s Spirit in me, God’s Will in my life is aligned and I have the freedom that Jesus paid for and I live in the strength of Jesus [read acts 13:38-39].  I live in the new coat that Jesus gave me to be all that He earned for me on the cross - an adopted son of God; co-heir with His Son, Jesus, and eternally forgiven and cleaned by God’s mercy and grace gifted through the blood of Jesus [read 2 Corinthians 5:17 & Romans 6:22].  The tug of war in me is won by the side I take, either my flesh nature or God’s Spirit in me [read Galatians 5:16 & Romans 8:1-4].