The White Stone Zone

"25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit." (Gal. 5) The lifestyle of every believer is a dependence on the Spirit of God. Since we are new creations in Christ, and our true identity lives, moves and has its very being in God, it is not something we make happen--we live by he Spirit. Keeping in step with the Spirit is a process of each child of God learningto follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Divine love is initiating, and God has always initiated a relationship with us. Jesus brought the disciples into the upper room to initiate a warm, intimate interface where He promised to send the Holy Spirit. He said that the Holy Spirit wold comfort us, lead us into all truth, and testify of Jesus. So keeping in step with the Spirit is a faith walk. Sometimes we fall behind like a little child. I teach at the same school my daughter attends, and every morning we walk in together; sometimes she falls behind, and when i look back, sometimes s...

16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2. Cor. 5) The New Creation is you, believer in Jesus Christ; the New Creation is me; The New Creation is the spiritual reality that a believer in Jesus Christ has been made alive spiritually, and this brand new person is joined to Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit inseparably. The problem with New Creation is that it lives in the same sin cursed body in a sin cursed world with the selfish habits and bent toward self centeredness the Bible calls the flesh. Now, Jesus told the Pharisees of his day that "you belong to your father, the devil. It is safe to say that the nature of our flesh is the nature of the devil. Now, just as satan attacked God's creation right away, so, the flesh attacks the New Creation. Yes, that is the enemy within. Sata...