ARE YOU STILL TRYING TO CLEAN UP YOUR FLESH?

          Something to really think about: It doesn't matter how much you clean up the flesh, it will never please God. If your flesh could be cleaned up, Jesus would not have had to die. Jesus didn't die so your flesh could be cleaned up. Jesus died because your flesh couldn't be cleaned up. That is the problem with religion, it keeps trying to clean up our flesh.

          That is why missionaries leave the field. That is why people leave churches. They are trying to clean up their flesh and after failing over and over again, they finally give up. It is not in trying, but in trusting.

          When you accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour, your spirit was redeemed immediately and that is why God's Spirit can live there. But your soul and body won't be redeemed until you die or until the rapture. So what do you do?

          Here is what you do and actually how you live the Christian life. You let Christ live it through you. You could actually say a Christian is a person whom Christ lives through. Galatians 2:20

          So how do you let Christ live his life through you? You spend time with him and his Word every day. You listen for his Spirit to guide you because our Shepherd's plan is to lead us down the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. You obey what God puts on your heart to do instead of what your flesh wants to do and every time you obey the Holy Spirit's leading, you are letting Christ live his life through you.