Killing my FLESH!!!

Since I am in the process fo God cleansing my mind, He brought to the attention how much I give into my flesh. My spirit is willing to do things for God , but yet my flesh is scared, and I give into my flesh instead of turning to God.

Jesus warned His diciples "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." [Matthew 26:41] We need to be on the look out for things that might cause our minds to stumble and we need to be in constant prayer.

God has also shown me how I need to crucify my flesh and leave it at the cross and not carry around this bagadge like I do. Along with my fleshly desires that I carry around, I carry around old sin and past things that I have done. I look back and can't believe how wretched I was, how wrongly I thought and such. I just focus on those things instead of moving on to do His will.

"For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord." [Romans 6:5-11]

Those things are gone, dead, nailed to the cross. I am alive in Christ righteousness now.

Once we are forgiven..all of our sin is gone, Christ blood washes white as snow and we are pure in His sight. What good does it do to focus on old sin, and our fleshly desires??? It only causes us to fall back. We are free from that bondage and free to do God's will and follow His calling.

Killing my flesh involves moving on from those old sin because my flesh wants to dwell on those things. Killing my flesh means dying to myself so I cna serve others. Killing my flesh means living in Christ righteousness and love. With Christ help I can kill me flesh so I can live for Him and not myself. Do things for Him and not myself.