"For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit
in the gospel of his Son..."
- Romans 1:9
One of the reasons why faith is such a vital part to living a Spirit-Ruled life is that it is not tied to this natural world. It exists in another realm, a realm beyond our senses. It feeds on truths that are eternal. It views life from a spiritual perspective. It gains entryway into places where our senses have little to no identification. Oh yes, there are those times when we feel the Spirit moving and we certainly know what it is like to experience a real touch of heaven. But overall, our senses are unpredictable when it comes to spiritual realities. That is why we must learn how to draw upon our faith. Faith is far more capable of ascertaining things our senses have very little understanding of how to apprehend.
One thing we know for sure, if we spend the majority of our time depending upon our senses then our knowledge base for spiritual things will remain obscure. In fact, I am convinced that spending more time tied to the sense realm ultimately restricts what faith is able to achieve. I think this is why folks often become dull of hearing or slow in their ability to perceive spiritual things. Their faith becomes marginalized because of their inability to think outside the sense realm.
We have to know that the spirit world is very real and constantly active. Just because we don't see it with our natural eyes doesn't diminish its ability to enable us to move within an arena that is filled with all kinds of possibilities. How we heighten our perceptibility depend largely on what we make as our sphere of influence. Are we moved by things we see or are we moved by things we believe? What holds more power to our actions, our faith or our flesh? The more tied we are to our senses the more frustrated we will become in our ability to believe. This is why it is so important that we learn what it means to be Spirit-Ruled. We have to know the vital interests of heaven lie within the spiritual resources that we have within us through the life of Christ. In a simpler way of understanding it is to realize that the wealth of all that we have in Christ lies within the grasp of faith. Faith can make possible what seems to the natural to be impossible. And it is by learning how to be Spirit-led and Spirit-conducted that the groundwork to living beyond our own limitations becomes most productive, creating such fertile soil for our faith to grow by leaps and bounds.
What God did in us in the new birth is absolutely extraordinary. What we have within is so far reaching that it takes stepping out in faith to lay hold upon it. It will not manifest just because we have acknowledged Christ as our Savior. We must press into a life ruled by the Spirit to where the veil is stripped away and we discover the unlimited resources that only faith knows how to activate for everyday living. *
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