His Spirit Who Lives In You

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

Romans 8:1-11

Life is short, and many of us turn to Jesus because we want to live forever. However, we don’t really comprehend what eternal life really is. We tend to crave the wrong things. We long for something better, and we think it is just ahead.

The truth is, we possess eternal life now. The apostle Paul wrote, “The law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.” Then he said, “Those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.” In other words, our desires change when we come to Christ. This naturally gives us what we most desire, “The mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.”

It’s one of life’s great lies that we need to be somewhere else, doing something else, with someone else before we start truly living. When we find ourselves in Jesus, we exchange regret over life’s brevity for the full enjoyment of life with Him, both now and forever.

To live forever we must let Jesus live in us now.

Our Daily Bread – June 5, 2017