Walk with God

I did not write this, but I sure do agree with it. Hope it blesses you.

Lahry

There is a better way to walk with God.

Mt. 11:28-30
“Come unto Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Most interpret these verses to refer to the good way of salvation and the rest in Him that is found from acts of sin and the ensuing guilt. Actually, as well as this it refers to a little-known better way to walk with God.

This way is better because it has been made free from all the just mentioned "carnal labor and heavy worldly weight". You do not find this better way by getting something more than the New Man, but by getting rid of something that is old:

“…if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians 4:21-24

“And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All of these things come from within and defile a man” Mark 7:20-23

Even though you are saved and all your previous acts of sin are forgiven, the foundational defiling sinfulness of the fallen heart remains covertly intact. All your acts of sin, both past and future have their root in a basic corruption that is still quietly hidden within your heart of hearts. Any new acts of sin are manifestations of what was already hidden in seed-form within the heart. All acts of sin are conceived and empowered by dark seed-forces such as:

• delicious deep-down cast-iron prejudices
• a hunger to be accepted by others -making little "white" face-saving lies a necessity
• juicy envies that know the grass is greener on the other side of the fence
• lurid demonic lusts that ache to spill over from the safety of the marriage bed
• overweening pride that arrogantly puffs up at every opportunity
• demanding our own way -and so ignoring the interests of others and God
• cruel hard-hearted stubbornness that turns from the right way
• sneaky selfishness that denies that it's desires are not lawful.....
• cunning ambition that lusts to be heaped with honour, wealth and power
• excessive self-awareness that heaps cruel blame on itself for every percieved fault
• lofty judgment of others assumes inward knowledge to inwardly assassinate

These inward things are not acts of sin themselves. They are instead parts of the whole pre-existing world of sin, sinfulness and iniquity in concentrated potential secretly hiding in your heart just waiting for the opportunity to burst forth some day and quickly plunge you back into the deadly trouble which comprises this lost God-averse world you were born into.

Pardon is the remedy for new acts of sin, but there can be no covering or excuse for the heart that is just continuing to be its own natural-born self. It is not an act of sin for your heart to be the way it was born to be, so the only remedy for it is to willingly crucify it on the cross with Christ. Such an unworthy heart is both unavoidable and unlawful since by nature it is not enabled to obey the ten commandments (with will-power you manfully resist, but the unlawful urge remains), and therefore the only cure is to be cleansed from it.

Now once that unworthy hidden world of sinfulness is gone, what is left? You are. The Holy Spirit is. But your heart is now unhindered from the fall and set free to be as Godly as you wish it to be. No pollution means no distance from Him. In my own case, the changes were subtle at first but opened out over time to become totally revolutionary as I gradually learned what I could do with this gloriously completed spiritual freedom.