Learn To Fly With God
Many Christians have a dream of living victoriously over doubt and temptation. However, they try to do it using their own finite abilities instead of seeking the omniscient, infinite wisdom and power of God.
They are like the young man who decides one day he wants to be a pilot. The next day he goes to the airport. He climbs into the cockpit of a plane, attempts to get it airborne, but ends up crashing. He says, “Stupid plane! I really meant it when I committed to be a pilot. Why did I crash?” He did not learn the rules for flying.
That said, the same is true for Christians who desire to “fly with God,” but do not say, “Lord, teach me how to fly Your way.” Instead of focusing on godliness, purity and holiness, they feed the desires of their weak flesh.
38Keep awake and watch and pray [constantly], that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Then they get sucked into a habit that pulls them down. They will say, “I can’t stop, I try, but I am a slave to this thing.” The Apostle Paul spoke of this very issue.
14We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a creature of the flesh [carnal, unspiritual], having been sold into slavery under [the control of] sin.
Sin has power over our lives until we make a commitment to learn God’s teachings and obey them. The Bible tells us that the way to victory over temptation is to have faith in Jesus and stop feeding the desire for evil — crucify the flesh through starvation.
5For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.
24And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires.
Simply stated, we must trust in God and refuse to give one morsel, even one grain of nutrition, to the fleshly nature. In other words, set our affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
16But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God).
2And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.
In summary, desire is the seat of power in our lives. What we desire is what we will end up doing. When we have godly desires, we have a different value system. God is the center of our desire, and we have victory over temptation and are free from sin as we follow Him with all of our heart. It is at this point, we can “fly with God.”
31But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.
God Bless!
“Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified Bible”
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