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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

"LET US NOT"

This entry was posted on 05-09-2008 and is filed under uncategorized.

Any time the Bible says "let us not" I would advise you to sit up and take notice. I do not want to be found doing what the Bible says I should not be doing.

Paul has just finished a section of Scripture where he told us how to live in the Spirit. God gave us the Holy Spirit so we could "walk the line" each day and be pleasing to Him. But before he finishes, Paul gives one final admonition. Here it is, in the Amplified Version: "Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive and challenging and provoking and irritating to one another, envying and being jealous of one another."

This tells me that even though every Christian possesses the indwelling gift of God's Holy Spirit, the battle is not over. As long as we are in the flesh we will have to heed the apostolic admonition of "let us not." The flesh wants to have "Easter" every day, that is, it wants to rise up. We must put the flesh down, back in the grave as it were, by the help of the Spirit.

Prayer: Holy Father, thank You for the gift of Your Holy Spirit. May we live our lives with each other in Your love, never provoking or envying another child of Your's. Through Christ we pray.