Life Capsule for Today Date: 31st August, 2024
Theme: The Divine Triangle (7)
Memory Verse: Rom 8:14-15
4 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. NKJV
Topic: The Battle Ground Called the Soul
Today’s Reading: Rom 12:1-2
12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. NKJV
Words of the Ministry:
This week we have considered the matter of the man and the two tress, we saw that God placed man in the garden instructing him not on how to pray or worship but on how to eat. We realize that his choice determined his destiny and that both trees had an eternal impact on the life of man. As we learnt in the week, Satan became a part of man in his body turning it to the flesh but unknown to the evil, it was a trap to destroy the power and claim of Satan over all who believe. Eventually, God terminated the flesh on the cross and set man free from the power of sin and death. As a result of this, we are to carry our cross daily and reckon ourselves dead to sin and living to God.
Today we want to look at the effect of the spirit and the flesh on the soul of man. We would recall that while God created the human spirit and made his body from dust, the soul came into being as a result of the union of Sprit and Body. The soul is the seat of our consciousness, our personality and it is made up of our mind with which we understand and interpret things, our will with which we make choices and our emotion through which we express feelings. Our soul is the expression of our personality and happen to be the battle ground, the territory both the Spirit and the flesh is striving to master. From yesterday’s example, we saw our Lord saying his spirit was willing but his flesh was week, so the matter was to be settled in the soul, he was to decide what to do in his soul, thankfully the master said not my will but thine, the Lord submitted his will to the father, amen.
Our todays reading gives us a way of victory in this battle of Spirit and flesh, it says we are to present our bodies to God as a living sacrifice, it is to be done as a matter of choice, we must choose God over the body to make the body a sacrifice on God’s altar. That again is the cross, we must present the body dead and a living sacrifice, in other words it must be dead daily just a s Paul died daily, that is what it means to carry our cross daily, it’s not just a past event but a present continuous one. If we don’t crucify the flesh daily, the flesh would eventually transform the soul to become self, in which case we become self-aware, self-dictatingand living an independent life like the unsaved. To effectively do this, the bible encourages us to renew our mind with God’s word which would ultimately lead to divine transformation and conformity to the Lord’s image and likeness. We must be willing and deliberate to make the right choice, to choose life is to die daily.
Bible in one year: Lamentation 3-5
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