Either Or - It Is Your Choice

It is either one way or the other. What will it be? It is your choice. It is a simple “either or.” What am I talking about?

When you take all the shrouds away, when you get down to the basics, when you take away all the hype and talk, it comes down to “either or.” Your choice in life is flesh or spirit. That is it! You live your life according to the flesh or by the spirit. “Either or.” They both have consequences. Obviously living by the flesh comes more naturally, but living by the spirit has far more benefits. Let’s see what God’s Word has to say:

Romans 8:5-9:

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

We have choices, but realizing the truth of God’s Word, there is one obvious choice that makes the most sense.

I Corinthians 2:14:

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

James 1:23:

For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the open door to living the spiritual life. Our belief in Him and that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9) places us on the spiritual path. Daily we need to make the right decisions to walk by the spirit. Praise the Lord our “either or” is no more. We have one choice that guarantees victory! We are born again, filled with the gift of holy spirit for ever more!

Agape,

Bob

 

Bob

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