08/07/10 LIFE LIVED ON TWO DIFFERENT PLANES
Life is either a series of Divine missions, miraculously lived in the power of the supernatural, eternal God, or a tangle of events lived in the malaise of godlessness. We either choose to face the challenges of life by faith or we settle for an unrewarding existence by mere mortal effort. Human attainment results in futility, but godliness has the promise if this life and that which is to come.
PASSAGE...
1 Timothy 4:8
8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
The allure of the material is great, so it takes courage, humility and faith just to escape the "gravitational pull" of trusting in the things we see.
Still, after a person is saved, he/she has the weight of carnality which keeps them "earthbound." Again, it takes faith to be released from such a connection with the merely natural.
Even after there is complete deliverance from all sin in this present evil world, by trusting Christ for entire sanctification, the battle continues, not inwardly with a corrupted nature (flesh, from which we can be delivered through the Blood of Christ), but outwardly with the world and the devil.
Victory is obtained by trusting Christ, with our lives, our problems, our opportunities, our relationships, our plans. Victory is dependent on faith, for this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:3-4
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4) For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
