Did you check your heart yesterday? Do you know the worldly things (the flesh) you need to cut out of your life? If you know what your is, can you cut it out or are you trying to hold on to it? In this world, it says that we are self-gratify, seek self-pleasure, and give into the flesh. In Mark chapter 10 verse 25 it says, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. could we apply this verse to what we are talking about that it would be easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than or align with God desire instead worldly desires (the flesh). In the verse, it is talking about money but I think it can be applied to all that is hard. the love of money is also a desire and can turn into a fleshly desire, one that can become unhealthy.
The point of what was said above is to say that the easiest things sometimes are the hardest to do. I am not surprised with all that we are confronted with each and every day, we are constantly seeing things about sex, money/wealth, beauty, and anything else that is of the flesh. The beauty industry is a billion-dollar industry, why because of the flesh. the porn industry is a billion-dollar industry, why because of the flesh. The fact that we seek wealth all the time in trying to stab people in the back, walk on people and do whatever it takes to get ahead not in a good way, why because of the flesh and this idea that enough will never be enough I want more and more. The flesh is shoved in our faces to satisfy it daily. We live in a wicked world folks that wants us to satisfy that flesh and the devil himself wants you to do this, so you do not glorify God and seek Him.
That is why we have the lie that we are to satisfy the flesh it is good and makes us better. Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, lest they exalt themselves. Selah Psalm 140:8. They want us as the verse says to exalt ourselves not God. That is of the devil and right now I declare and cast that idea out. I proclaim victory in the area of the flesh. To do that we need to put that flesh into submission and tomorrow we will talk about that as we pivot from worldly desires to godly desires and how to seek the desires of God.
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Corinthians 9:27
All Bible verses taken from the ASV, KJV
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