New Things Verses Old Things.

I woke up this morning with the thought of how much I appreciate beautiful things. Like mountains, oceans, my wife, our children. It always turns me to the Creator, to give credit where credit is due. I hate it when I take credit for something I literally had either nothing to do with, or very little to do with. Like the creation of a child, how little do we actually have to do with it. Like a farmer planting a seed. All the growth is The Lords. yes, we have to be faithful to always do what is right, but the shaping and forming is ultimately left to God. He alone gives breath, and life to substance, as well as the substance itself! It's always amazed me that all the plants come from tiny seeds, to me it is the miracle of creation. A corn stalk from a tiny seed, produces over 600 kernels! (University of OK, 1 seed can produce 600 kernels; http://oklahoma4h.okstate.edu/aitc/lessons/upper/cornmath.pdf) What can we produced when endued with the Holy Spirit. Imagine God "invested" (Literal meaning of endued) in us His power from on high (Luke 24:49) So after all, what is impossible with God?

Romans 8: 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,[a] who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

"Lord, please help us to not walk in the flesh this year, this year of our Lord 2012. For we want to please You, and if we want to, we MSUT walk in The Spirit, in Jesus Name, amen."