Life is War

"...let us cleanse oursleves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit..."

life is war. we are in the middle of a spiritual warfare, yet we do almost nothing about it. we sit and wait for sin to attack us. we wait and listen to our flesh talk to us instead of telling it what to do. we don't "cleanse oursleves from all filthiness of the flesh." we don't “renew our mind.” we don't “redeem the time.” we don't “mortify the flesh.” we don't “put on and put off.” we don’t “abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.” if this is the case then you are loosing the battles. actually, you have yet begun to fight. "hedges of protection,” those defenses that we so often talk about, do us absolutely no good unless we actually try to fight. we know the ins and outs of our own defenses, and our flesh is smart enough to work around them. so we are faced with the question. how do i fight? you know the answer. you are just waiting for a quick fix. you want the three step solution to the problem! hear is the answer in short…FEAR GOD! if we feared God like we should we would not sin. fearing God implies knowing more about Him...His character. He is holy…separate form any form of evil, impurity, SIN. thus He hates sin. He has a righteous indignation toward it. and sin is what we so often do. daily, actually! when we sin we do not fear God. we do not care about His holiness. on the contrary we care more about our self gratification. stop loving yourself! FEAR GOD.

II Corinthians 7:1 “...perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”