There is a growing awareness within me regarding spirit. God is Spirit, Jesus was first Spirit and took upon himself flesh so He could be the righteous sacrifice for you and me. Then, there is God’s Holy Spirit Whom Jesus gave to you and me as we accepted Him into our lives as our Savior and then Lord. All of this is just plainly wonderful! Yet, what is wonderful is only a beginning to our new life. This new life given to us cannot be understood in our logical flesh mind. If I cannot connect to my surrendered spirit so God’s Holy Spirit can lead me, this logical mind of mine will try to put fleshly understanding into God’s Heavenly meaning.

Satan is fully aware of our flesh and its sinful limitations so that his deceptive ways factor right into what my fleshly mind and emotions grasp. I lived a very long time thinking these deceptions were truth for me when they were only evil’s lies. As I am going through this study with a couple small groups of men, I am awakening to the meaningful truth of God’s Holy Spirit within me. Spirit and flesh are not a marriage. They are opposing forces at work within us. Only when I surrender my willful flesh to God’s Spirit within me do I find the Peace I am to put my feet into as I allow God’s Spirit to put on His armor on me each and every day. This particular piece of armor is called the Gospel of Peace which we are to put our feet into.

Well, this journey of life does continue and I never want to stop learning especially from God’s Holy Spirit Who has been waiting for me to be a better student for HIm.