What a Beautiful God!

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sin.
Sin.
Sin.
Living according to our flesh results in our sin. How is it that we live according to the Spirit. Simple, but not easy we must continually walk in the Spirit. What does this look like? As friends have told me, this was the hardest thing for them to grasp about Christianity. Is it hard for me, why yes. It is very difficult for me to describe how someone can do this and it is also very hard for me to describe what it looks like. Walking in the Spirit is something that may be seen in the presence and sometimes after the fact. I would say that continually surrendering to God as Lord, Savior, Father, Helper...ect. This is difficult in a culture that desperately wants "us" to love "us."
Advertisements, athletes, movie stars, magazines, ect. always tell us to love ourselves. They all want us to follow the desires of our flesh. Although we are in this world we are not to be of it.
This is where the difficulty comes in. We are all born into sin because of Adam. [Gen. 3]
Because of Gods love for us he gave all who believe and place their hope soley in Him a helper, the Holy Spirit.[Jn 14:15-31]
Not only does Jesus give eternal life to us, but he gives us a helper to live in obedience to him as an act of our worship to the HOLY ONE.

[1Peter1:7]
so that the tested genuineness of your faith-more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire- may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.