Saturday, 22 December 2012

Living by the Spirit (12-22-2012)

December 22, 2012

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3:1
  
弟 兄 們 、 我 從 前 對 你 們 說 話 、 不 能 把 你 們 當 作 屬 靈 的 、 只 得 把 你 們 當 作 屬 肉 體 、 在 基 督 裡 為 嬰 孩 的 。
3:2
  
我 是 用 奶 餵 你 們 、 沒 有 用 飯 餵 你 們 . 那 時 你 們 不 能 喫 、 就 是 如 今 還 是 不 能 。


   10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
   The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,
   “Who has known the mind of the Lord 
   so as to instruct him?”
   But we have the mind of Christ.
 1 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.


A person without the Spirit will not and cannot know the things of God - he cannot know God and he cannot judge things properly without the Spirit's help. But a person with the Spirit but is not living by the Spirit will also judge things wrongly as he is still worldly, living according to the worldly standard. But a person who has the Spirit and also lives by the Spirit can know God and make the right judgments about all things. This is the key to understand spiritual realities.

My Spirit, thanks for dwelling in me that I can know know God and judge all things by You. Living by the Spirit becomes my desire and prayer everyday as this is the only way that my life can be embraced by the life of the Spirit. There are certainly strong temptations from the world to entice me to follow the worldly ways to look at persons and things happened in my life. I do require diligently watching over the spiritual life of me and my family members that we follow the Spirit's leading daily. Pray to the Spirit that You walk beside me and speak to me always. 




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