Are you a spirit lead person? What does that mean?

  

Are you a spirit lead person?

What does that mean?

Romans 8: 1 – There is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh , but according to the spirit.

            Them that are not in condemnation are those who are in Christ Jesus. Paul goes on to describe those who are in Christ Jesus as those who do not walk according to flesh but according to the spirit. Therefore, walking according to the spirit is being in Christ Jesus. What then is being in Christ Jesus? The whole other chapters before this verse explain how we are reconciled back to a holy and just God despite we being sinners and being worthy of divine justice (wrath). And that we are reconciled through faith in Christ Jesus. Faith in Christ Jesus means believing that he died for all our sins on the cross hence all our sins are paid for (we are justified) and that Christ’s righteousness is ours hence we counted as righteous before God. Therefore walking in spirit is being governed by such a perception that all our sins are forgiven and that we are considered by God righteous on the basis of Christ’s righteousness. I sometimes tend to forget this truth and start either condemning myself or living by trying to impress God and there are other times I live by this truth.

Romans 8: 4-5 – that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit for those who live according to the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the spirit.

            Paul laboured especially in the fourth chapter to show in that we are reconciled to God by faith alone before we try to even try to obey his law. That the law is not the basis of our relationship with God but faith in Christ since we cannot attain its standards; it is holy and we are not as stated in Chapter 7. Therefore, those who try to live by the law in a bid to either impress God, prove themselves before God or try to earn the love of God through obeying the law are walking in the flesh and not in the spirit. On the contrary, those who are walking in the spirit are who constantly remind themselves that they are justified, reconciled and loved by God on the basis of Christ alone and the work that He did by dying and resurrecting. I have been in moments that I have tried to prove myself before God and there are times that I have just had to say to Him - nothing to the cross I bring simply to the cross I cling.

            Galatians 5:18 – 26 – But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and like; of which I tell you beforehand, just also you in time, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Therefore, living in the flesh is living by standards labelled above and living in the spirit is living by the values listed above as the fruits of the spirit. Applying these things I see that there are times that I have lived in the flesh there are times that I have lived in the spirit.

            The fight between the flesh and the spirit is very much alive therefore our dependence on God must be at the uttermost cause through him we are conquerors of the flesh and victors in the spirit. Therefore, living in the spirit is also about consistent sense of dependence on God for our total salvation.