WHO ARE WE WALKING WITH?

Who are you walking with?

      Many "believers" say in response, "With Christ!" or in "Jesus!". But are we really? If we are accepting anything in our soul life that is not out of God I submit to you that there is some spring cleaning to be done.

      Here as in most of the United States we adopted "Daylight Savings Time" and in order to remind us which way to turn our clocks the phrase "spring forward" is used. So Spring is here and there is some cleaning house to be done by springing forward.

      In springing forward we need to take a look at with whom we are walking daily. Why whom? Because we all have some ideas that we have adopted in our thinking that when acted out do not bring to light the Spirit that is of Christ and therefore do not reveal His character. After all that is who we are to be in this world, a representation of the Christ within.

      Jesus said, "He that is not with Me is against Me..." Uh Oh! The verse goes on further to say, "...and he who does not gather with Me scatters." Matthew 12:30. Again, uh oh!

      Jesus was talking directly to the Pharisees who were saying that He was casting out demons "by the spirit of Beelzebul (satan) the ruler of demons. In verse 35 He says, "The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good; and evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil."

      So the question is to us, "What are we considering as treasure and where is it stored?" Jesus also said, "Store up for yourselves treasures within heaven where the thief cannot come in to steal and moth does not destroy." Luke 12:33. In Matthew 6:20, Young's literal translation says,"...but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth more rust doth disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal."

      The whole idea here is that we must guard our hearts (soul) from our most inner being (spirit)which is within Christ by giving our all (spirit, soul and body) to Him wherein there is no darkness at all, nothing to obscure our understanding of who we are within Him.

      Jesus said, "Unless a man hates his soul within this world he will not to be My disciple." The inference is such a one (who hates not his own soul in this world) will be a disciple of the world and all its lusts and ungodly passions for as the Apostle John said in his first letter, "For all that is within the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the boasting of your physical well being are not out of the Father but out of the world".

      But we who believe have this promise that every promise of God the Father is yes and amen (so be it) within Christ Jesus who not only is our savior but our eternal life and within Him we have been given everything that He is right here, right now. Jesus said, "I AM the way...".

      So therefore we now in all humility receive the word of God within Christ who is our life and no longer will to walk in the former ways of the fleshly mind set but accept our soul as being made free all to the glory of God!