Live from your spirit

"The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him."

Zachariah 12:1

You are not just flesh and blood. The Bible says in our opening scripture that God "…formeth the spirit of man within him." The real you is inside your body, and that real you is your spirit. Your body is your house. You live in your body.

Job 4:18-19(AMP) says, "Even in His [heavenly] servants He puts no trust or confidence, and His angels He charges with folly and error-- How much more those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed like the moth." The body is referred to here as a house of clay. So your body is not the real you. You live inside your body.

Your spirit is the real you and the part of you that is supposed to govern the body and the soul. To let your body govern you is to live in the flesh. Romans 8:12-14(AMP) says, "So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh. For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God."

Instruction.

Meditate on Galatians 2:20.

For further study read:

Romans 6:1-15, Galatians 5:24, Galatians 6:8.

Doing the Word

Please pray Galatians 4:19 for yourself today.