By: Fred Reid
“I want carnality to die I want life
in my spirit so when God speaks a word in my heart I can hear it!” Those are the lyrics from a song by YPJ that
almost ALWAYS makes me run it back! This is like a declaration for life for me!
I’ll be the first one to be honest my carnality; holds me back often! It is a
very obviously a separation between me and God, but it can be defeated!
What
is carnality? 1 Corinthians 3:1-3:
“And
I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal even as unto babes in Christ 2I have fed you with milk and not
with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet NOW are ye able 3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions are
yet not carnal and walk as men?”
Few
things are I want to point out about carnality. It is NATURAL! As in you are
born into it or with it however you want to say it. Carnality is your first
reaction if you don’t catch yourself and find a spiritual response that is more
appropriate. Carnality has you upset and wanting to fight or cuss somebody out,
carnality has you lusting for sex or saying sexually inappropriate things. Therefore
carnality is mentioned as a characteristic of them that are babes in Christ.
You literally have to grow in Christ to grow OUT of carnality. Finally the
fruits, or results of carnality are expressly mentioned: envying, strife, and
divisions. None of these characteristics bring glory to God, are exemplified by
Christ nor build up the Kingdom. And as Romans 14:23 tells us “whatever is not
of faith is of sin”
In
summation what I’m trying to say is don’t be alarmed or feel bad if you feel or
do carnal things, that’s what comes natural and what you’ve been doing for
years. It doesn’t make you a bad person. However, don’t settle! Grow and mature in Christ. Be a peacemaker and spread
love, stop letting people and their words make you place your cross down so
often. If Jesus did that we’d all be done for! Besides the upside to all this,
is once you do mature and become less carnal the Lord can speak to us as unto
spiritual and then there is NO telling what type of things we will learn and
things that He can do through us! GREATER works my friends! The world NEEDS us!
Be blessed!
Over
and Out J
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