Spirit Controlled Desires

Spirit Controlled Desires

[My Offline Bible] Galatians  5
24. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Belonging to Christ means being alive in the realm of the Spirit. There is spiritual self consciousness by reason of being born of the Spirit of God. God is spirit and those who are born of Him are spirit beings with spiritual consciousness. They are conscious beyond the awareness of the physical realm. They are alive to the reality of the unseen realm where God lives. They have broken the mental, emotional and moral limitations within which the physical used to lock them within itself. Their desires and aspirations are born out of their spiritual realities and not just by the illusions of the physical realm.

When you are born of God, you overcome the world. The world and its influence lose grip on you. Your considerations of things and of the future now goes beyond the limits of the potentials and the limitations of the world. You think in eternal format and not just in time.

And this forms the soup within which our desires and aspirations are cultured. While we can see the enormous potential of the world and would want to explore it to its limits, we also know that there are limitations that make the realm of the spirit superior and eternal.

The spiritual quality of a person is seen in his or her desires, ambitions and pursuits. Jesus said we should not seek what the unbelieving seek, rather we should seek the kingdom and God kind of righteousness. Apostle John puts it as the lusts of the eyes, of the flesh and the pride of life.

The flesh and the world are in league. They have their own affections and lusts. They use these to control their subjects, as futile and vain as they are. They present them as objects of value, earthly treasures that moths and rot eat up and thieves break in and steal according to our Lord Jesus Christ.

So, we in Christ are created and called to set our affections on things above where Christ is seated on the right hand of God and not on things on the earth, Apostle Paul echoing to the Colossians in Col 3, what Jesus Christ said.

1Corinthians 7
29 But let me say this, dear brothers and sisters: The time that remains is very short. So from now on, those with wives should not focus only on their marriage. 30 Those who weep or who rejoice or who buy things should not be absorbed by their weeping or their joy or their possessions. 31 Those who use the things of the world should not become attached to them. For this world as we know it will soon pass away

We must permit the Spirit of God to be in charge of our desires, ambitions and aspirations. With Him we can use this world only to the extent that won't take our focus off eternal things. We must know that earthly gains isn't godliness and that spirituality isn't by the things we possess.

What manner of people should we be knowing that the earth is nothing compared to heaven? What kind of people should we be knowing how brief life is and how the world with all its treasures are temporary things? It should affect our life's pursuits, our acquisitions and our distribution of the things we possess.

We should watch our affections and deal with our lusts, we are Christ's. Vain glory should not be our pursuit. Envying and provoking one another aren't part of our heritage as being children carrying the DNA of God...

Ours should be spirit controlled desires, pursuits, ambitions and aspirations, otherwise it'll all be a waste in the context of eternity!