The Devotional 1027 - Foot steps in First Corinthians, ongoing

The Devotional – 1027 – Foot steps in First Corinthians, ongoing

It takes a good two weeks or better to flush out the home life way of doing things in every military man or woman; even longer if you are a young “boot” someone who has just entered the service. During these transitional periods when a man or woman is adopting to the readiness of the military way of life they are most vulnerable in an enemy attack. They are not focused, they are partly military and partly civilian. If you understand this; then you can see the potential of failure in any military campaign be it on the ground, in the air or on the sea. This is why the leadership in the military spend much time training and exercising strategies to force the mind of those who will be facing the enemy to react apart from any thought other than a military command. This same training is necessary for the child of God; notice!

Comments and Challenges:

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

The apostles, Paul, Peter, James and John; even the LORD Jesus warns the children of God against carnality or fleshly living. Fleshly living is mixing or behaving like the natural minded person. This reminds me too of a river as it empties into the ocean. When the tide is running out the fresh water empties into the ocean and becomes brackish at the opening and when the tide is coming in a portion of the river becomes brackish.

Are you getting the picture, this is an ONGOING problem in our relationship with God as His child. We desire to be with Him and glorify Him, yet when the tide is pushing against us, we become rancid, and we are no longer fresh in the Spirit of God and we have diluted our way and become “fleshly or carnal”. The writer of Hebrews makes this very CLEAR. And of course when there is no resistance to living in the Spirit we become relaxed and let the rancid flesh in to work its deeds. 

Now we do not have the time to break open the entire passage of Hebrews 6:1-8, we will need to read that on our own, but we will look at the “better estimate” of things that this same writer has to say concerning the children of God. Hebrews 6:9-12. The writer says that he is confident of better things for the children of God, things that GO ALONG with SALVATION. (O what a fore taste of His glory and mercy!)

God is not unjust to forget those times of our love we have shown toward His Name. There are times in the past when we have ministered to the saints and even in our carnality we still minister, do we not? Our pastors, teachers and conference speakers desire that we walk as spiritual children of God and NOT as babes who are always fed with milk. We are no longer sojourners in darkness, we are now in the Light; walk as children in unity; Ephesians 4:1-6. Better yet; lay hold of Ephesians 5:1-21 and walk in love, in the Light and in the WISDOM of God.

This is one of the most serious areas of the failure in churches today as many of the leadership are full of carnality. They fill the pulpit with a brief moment of prayer, a short sermon of love thy neighbor and spend the next hour and a half on entertaining the troops. This type of exercise is evident all across this land and the push of the world’s influence is rapidly making the CHURCH nothing more than a social club, or a mixture of fleshly gobbledygook (sour-milk).