Are you willing to look deep within and ask God to show you what is really going on in your heart? Do you really have the peace of God? Do you love others as God would have you love them? Do you have marital difficulty and conflict? Do you struggle with some kind of addiction? Do you suffer from fits of anger and resentment. Are you jealous of others? Do you lack a sense of spiritual wellness and a true sense of spiritual purpose in your life? These are issues reasonably expected in the lives of those who do not know Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, they are also realities in the lives of Christians who continue to live by their own power. They are the fruits of self-seeking and the spiritual torments of the lukewarm and the carnal.
No Christian will totally eliminate the fruits of carnality in this life but God asks that we press on with our fight against carnality “until the day”. The question is this: Are you pressing on with the fight, or have you surrendered to certain fruits of carnality? The answer is in your heart – if you are willing to seek it.
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