Without Conflict

September 30

The unbeliever has no conflict. The unbeliever walks after his flesh to fulfill all its lusts. He goes where he wants, does what he wants, pursues what he wants. Whatever his eyes or his passion desire, his energy will be directed toward obtaining it.

The believer who focuses on Jesus and His Kingdom’s purposes with a single eye has no conflict. He endeavors to please the Lord and to fulfill His will with the entirety of his life. He directs his energy toward the attainment of the mission of Christ within the inner man and in external circumstances.

The ‘soulish Christian,’ on the other hand is the believer who yearns for the things of time as much as or more than he desires the purposes of the Lord. It is this type of individual who is identified in Galatians 5:15-18. Of such it is said that they, “bite and devour one another…”

“…Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. The flesh and the Spirit are contrary…but if you are under the Spirit, you are not under the law.” To be surrendered to the Holy Spirit of the Living God is to be at peace with Him and thereby at peace with yourself—to be without conflict in conforming your purposes to in His.