Those words were uttered by paul in a moment of clarity not just from paul but from the spirit which guided him

“I die daily…”1 Corinthians 15:31

I was sitting down and was thinking about those words today and I thought it would be a great though to mention part of our devotional for this morning!

Those words were uttered by paul in a moment of clarity not just from paul but from the spirit which guided him to this place of discernment, in order that we today can pick a part what this means on our own life. This statement gives us insight on what we need to do each day. The apostle paul said this in order to illustrate that we are to die to the flesh each day. The flesh meaning the things of this world that can stick to your spiritual garment. The things in the world that leaves us feeling guilty and low in the depths of sin. For example, I use to have quite a problem with cursing a bit too frequently and without proper thought, and we all know what it feels like to do something that we did not intend to do, but due to the over emotionality of the situation we do not exercise proper judgment.

Its really easy to say, “you know what, I was angry and there is nothing wrong with being angry”..but do we really believe that? Is there truly nothing wrong with anger? Take for instance, you and your significant other are in an embroiled argument, one of you spews out something that you said “I didn’t mean it, it was just spoken out of anger”..Remember the key words here are “Spoken out of anger” And now remember the Word says “…Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks..” {Luke 6:45} So, think again, do we really want ourselves to believe that what we say in times of anger is what and who we really are?

I submit to you a fundamental truth that we all sometimes try to ignore (myself included), the above statement is exactly true; what we spew out of our mouths is that which is in our hearts, this is why it is necessary to die to these things such as this, and this is what paul is illustrating here with this prophetic statement. We need to die to the indulgences of the flesh such as overt anger, because if we fill ourselves with anger, hatred and any other sins of the flesh then this is the fruit that we will produce (fruits of anger), meaning this is what we will speak from our mouths, these corrupt things that we have purposely and inadvertently allowed to seep into our hearts. Guard against it!

So we encourage you today, and every day hence forth, to die to the desires, and corruption of the flesh, because it’s just not worth it, aren’t you tired of feeling guilty when you absolutely know the right course of action to take in a situation? I am, and this is why the Holy Spirit pushed me to write this today, because I am weary of my groaning and guilt. So today I implore you to make a conscious effort to avoid the sins of the flesh, and believe me they will arise, but the question remains, what will you do? I encourage you to pray and let’s fight the good fight, for we have the victory, it’s just a matter of speaking the right things into existence and not the bad! Let’s help each other be free of the drudgery which the flesh can inflict upon us, in order that we may be made strong in the spirit and made whole to stave off the fangs of this world.

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