In Colossians 3:1-5, the Apostle Paul put it this way: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth.”
Get in the Tub and Scrub!
If you’re wondering what it means to “mortify your members which are upon the earth,” it just means this: Live your life according to the dictates of your born-again spirit, not according to the dictates of your flesh. “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit” (Romans 8:5).
Minding your flesh is essentially yielding to what your body and your carnal mind want to do. It’s doing what you’d want to do naturally, apart from the leading of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Before we were born again, all of us minded the things of the flesh. Because our spirit man was dead, that’s all we knew to do. We didn’t really have any choice. Now, however, we do have a choice. Having received Jesus as our Lord, our spirit is alive to God and we can become spiritually minded by learning how to think like God thinks.
Sadly, however, multitudes of believers never do that. They never change their minds from natural thinking to spiritual thinking. As a result, they miss out on many of the BLESSINGS that belong to them as believers. They leave the door open for Satan to come and steal from them, destroy their families and even their lives.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,” God said. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Hosea 4:6; Romans 8:6). Talk about two very different options! Destruction and death, or life and peace are polar opposites. Personally, I made my choice between them a long time ago. I decided I don’t want to be destroyed. I want to enjoy God’s high life of peace. So I’m going to do whatever it takes to become spiritually minded.
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