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Scripture:
“If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Galatians 5;25)Reflections:
The context of Galatians 5 talks about how the Spirit works in the life of a Christian. How it redeems a believer and transforms his mind to how it sustains the believer in his struggles of the flesh. It basically gives us instructions on how we are to “walk” in the Spirit.When we say live by the Spirit, it means that we have Christ in us and that He is alive in every one of us. We have been saved, cleansed, renewed, and made better than our old selves. And the best part about living by the Spirit, is that it gets better and better as our relationship with Christ deepens.
When we say “walk”, this is a metaphor for our everyday life. Walk, in this sense, means how we live our lives from the moment we wake up to the time we sleep. It is our lives, in short. So, when we say to walk in the Spirit, it means to live our everyday lives with evidence that Christ is indeed alive in us.
Now, that is easily said than done and I believe every Christian relates to that. There are a lot of people, including me, that once we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we will have a better life because we have become Children of God. We thought we will be in “heaven” after that, but it was not.
A Christian’s life is a journey. A journey wherein, with the help of the Spirit, we can avoid the desires of the flesh. Desires which are not pleasing to God’s eyes and lead to sin. A journey wherein the Spirit transforms us from our old dead selves because of sin, to a new self whom Jesus lives in.
This journey will not be easy. You may feel like you are going too slow, too fast or going in circles, but Christ didn’t die on the cross for us to stop halfway through our journey. His death wasn’t just for our salvation alone nor it was for Him to just show us the way. Jesus died on the cross so that He can personally accompany us in our journey towards Him.
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