As I’ve been teaching Colossians to the youth, engaging in conversations, and reading some great blog posts recently, I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around what it looks like to “walk in the Spirit” or “live by faith”. It is easy to say, that as believers we’re united with Christ and therefore we have died to sin and are alive to God. Paul tells us in Colossians 3 to put to death our old nature. John McArthur calls this “committing spiritual suicide”.
My friend Ron has written some great stuff about being united with Christ and living by faith. Communicating this to the teens has been difficult. They want/need something practical that will help them understand it.
In the mornings, for my own personal study time, I’m working my way through the Psalms, with Spurgeon’s help. This morning I found myself in Psalm 37 and came across this bit of wisdom from David.
He tells us in verses 1,7, and 8 not to fret over evil and evil doers. He tells us in verses 3 and 5 to trust in the Lord, and in verse 6 he says that if we trust in the Lord,
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
This is what Paul’s talking about when he tells us to live by faith and not to struggle with our own efforts at righteousness. We are to let God do the work in us.
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