Galations 5:16

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Sunday morning and the Pastor’s words were drifting past me like fall leaves. They filled the air, beautiful and alive, but difficult to capture. I resolved to listen, but the words and phrases I caught seemed inanimate and uninteresting.

I’m depressed but would rather not explain why. Five minutes until noon; he’ll be done soon.
…it must be in the context. Either he does not provide sufficient context to follow him and understand his points or I’m too preoccupied to listen. Probably the latter.

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There was once a little boy lying in bed trying to go to sleep. ‘Daddy,’ he said, ‘I can’t sleep. How can I go to sleep?’
‘Close your eyes and lie still,’ his father responded.
‘I tried that; it doesn’t work.’
‘It will work. Close your eyes and go to sleep.’
‘I’m not sleepy, I can’t sleep.’

Nevertheless, the father was right. My friends, we do not know how we sleep, we do not know why. We just know that God made us to require it and we close our eyes and it happens. Brothers, THIS is how we stop doing the things that oppose Christ. This is the miracle of being a new creature in Christ. This is how we walk in the Spirit. Whatever troubles you this morning, whatever prevents you from walking a victorious Christian life, lay it here, and walk in the Spirit, for you are born of the Spirit and it is natural for you to walk in the Spirit. He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it. How does it happen? The Spirit is like the wind, Jesus said, we do not know where it comes from or where it is going, but it blows where it wishes.
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