How to Kill Your Flesh

Dear reader, 

I have a question. How easy is it for you to die?

Have you ever considered this? 

I have. I’ve needed to in the past 9 months. 

My flesh is such a tricky beast. 

It’s manipulative and sneaky, it wants what it wants and won’t take no for an answer. 

But there’s a secret, the greatest advantage against our flesh. 

The Holy Spirit. 

The Spirit of the Living God that you are sealed with at the turning point of salvation. 

He guides and leads you, and He is responsible for leading the charge of the war against your flesh. 

He is a brutal combatant. But truthfully you and I can quench His ability to kill the flesh. 

It’s quite shocking how easy it is. 

I have to continue using the analogy of the Factory, I’ve had very hard seasons in my life, but this one at the factory is more of a season of my pride dying more than anything. 

My job is not glamorous. 

It is incredibly easy, yet I get paid very very well to do it. 

It’s mindless work, and you rarely get to have any human interaction. 

In the grand scheme of Kingdom work it’s easy to write it all off. 

Yet I can’t. 

It would be a disservice to God and His Spirit living within me. 

He has changed so much within me in these past nine months. 

My pride has been suffocated. 

My shyness has been shattered. 

My laziness has been obliterated. 

My flesh has been massacred, and I am so much better off for it. 

Yet, I must be honest I’m still very much a pretty evil person. 

I still lie, cheat, and don’t think purely a lot of the time, but my awareness of Christ’s grace and Spirit renewing me and refining me day by day has been life changing. 

God truly does use all seasons, all circumstances for His glory and the good of His children. I can never deny that ever again. 

I don’t want to liken this to suicide, it’s not like that at all, but it’s truly laying yourself out on the altar and letting your desires die for the sake of God’s to be prevelant. 

God knows all things. We don’t. 

God can do all things. We can’t.

Why do we complain when we attempt to play God and it doesn’t work out? 

When he clearly doesn’t want us to.

I say this to you so that you would go and die well for the glory of God. 

Pick up your cross, not just as jewelry, but as the defining marker of one eternally changed by Christ. 

Die to this world and the joys it offers you. 

Jesus offers so much more, why wouldn’t we take it?

Sincerely Your Fellow Deadman Walking

-Mitchell