The Walk of the Flesh Vs. The Walk of the Spirit

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Many nations will come and say, 'Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us about His ways and that we may walk in His paths' . . . Though all the peoples walk each in the name of his god, as for us, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever .  (Micah 4: 2, 5)

These verses prompted me to record these thoughts in my journal:

"All Christians have a 'walk.'  We all show up on Sundays at the mountain we call church to be taught about God's ways, and desired result is that the teaching will have an impact on the 'walk' we are currently experiencing (Micah 4:2).  We are being taught for one purpose--that we may walk in His paths!  Yet the true testimony of so many believers today is that we have been taught and Taught and TAUGHT!   We could teach seminary classes on what we have learned and already know.  But the rest  of our testimony is often that, though we know a lot, we continue to walk in the name of our 'gods' rather than in  the name of the One and Only True God.  We know what we know , but we 'walk' in our flesh (Micah 4:5).  So, we basically are worshiping our gods, idols, and sin alongside of the God whom we claim a Lord!  Whose name are we really walking in then?  We are just like the people in Micah 4:5.  Our actions don't line up with our words.  We go to the Lord's house to be taught how to walk in His ways, and then we walk in the ways of our flesh the very moment we leave God's house and His teaching."

We tend to let every continuous sin off the hook, knowing it is sin and that it is displeasing to God.  We choose to keep them alive.  We don not crucify them.  We just keep letting them off the hook by setting them aside to presumably deal with later.  We constantly refuse to see our need to rid of them.  We think that God either winks at them or just turns His holy eyes away from them.  We simply do not care at all that we have been called to a walk of holiness.  These are the telltale signs that we are "sparing" our gods, our idols, and our sin instead of taking full vengeance on them.  This is true spiritual complacency.  This is reclining in the spiritual easy chair!

Today's blog, in part, is a quote from a past journal entry after reading Micah 4: 1-5. God spoke bold words into my heart, words that brought conviction, and humbled me and my walk. Does it speak to you, too?