A Daily Devotional – Psalm 119:145-152 – Personal Meditation
Comment: Yesterday I said we would look at
some of the points of interest in our Sunday School lessons regarding
Spirituality. It is God; not man, who says to man, “Be holy, for I am Holy” (1
Peter 1:15 and Leviticus 11:44). This is a simple command of God, but many of
us do not like simplicity, we as human temporal
people seek to make something more out of this by ignoring another simple
command of God in John 4:23-24 – “But the hour is
coming, AND NOW IS, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in SPIRIT
and TRUTH, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. GOD is Spirit, and
those who worship Him MUST worship in the Spirit and Truth.” You say, “Well
I know that! Yet, God will say to us that we do not know it well enough because
if we have, and we do have at times the following list of
things in our heart while we worship Him, then are we in the Spirit, or in the
flesh? See Galatians 5:16-26, Ephesians 4:25-32 and Colossians 3:1-17. I have
listed the full context of these conditions of the flesh and the Spirit, but
now I will concentrate on the things of the flesh only.
Devotional: Galatians
5:19-21; Ephesians 4:25-31 and Colossians 3:5-9
We like to scan, or look over passages like these
above and many of us would say “well I am saved, and I do not physically
involve myself in any of this worldly foolishness”. I say to you “praise the
God who saved you, but do not praise the “I” who we think you are; let’s look
at another passage – Romans 7:1-25, but notice within this context are verses
13-25, does this section of scripture apply to us? Yes, yes it does, there are times
when we seek to worship God in the Spirit and Truth and we find that the
thoughts in our mind in seem uncontrollable and sinful? We do the very things
we ought not do and this while we seek to worship God in the Spirit!
Our list are the more common words we use today, words
we fully understand whereas we might skip over the words of scripture. These
are the things we do, even while we say we are worshipping God in the Spirit.
You could say that the following things “sour our soul in the presence of God
and man” so; if we say we are worshipping God with these conditions in our
soul; how then can we say that we are walking in the Spirit?
Indifference; resentment; bitterness; frustration; a
critical spirit; coveting; fear; self-driven; chasing happiness rather than the
joy of the LORD and self-satisfaction. If we harbor these conditions, we are
NOT Spirit filled. There are other things of the flesh that are pre-cursors to
being out of fellowship with God the Holy Spirit, things that lead us down to
the flesh, rather than leading us up to absolute spirituality.
Emptiness, loneliness, dissatisfied, gloominess,
depression, despair, restlessness and feeling empty (void). We must be aware of
these inner man struggles over, and that the devil sits on, he is always ready to destroy
our fellowship with God by producing in us these fleshly conditions and
attitudes that not only destroy fellowship with God who is Spirit and Truth,
but also with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
Putting on CHRIST is not a SALVATION message, it is a
SANCTIFICATION message. It is required of us to be holy (Spiritual), as God is
Holy (Spirit), meaning to walk properly before the LORD and mankind. That would
be just as the LORD Jesus walked, Romans 13:8-14. Now we make convince
ourselves and others that we are something spiritual, but it is God who KNOWS
the intentions of our heart, knows that our holiness is not full. More on this
tomorrow!
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