Cue from the Spirit

I want my flesh to take the cue from my spirit, not my spirit from my flesh. I’ve been sick--going on 3 weeks now. Doctor says it’s not allergies, but it’s definitely something in my sinuses that makes me NOT feel like Josh Coy. If you know me, I like to express myself. I realize now that I am not my personality. My personality is a fruit of my spirituality. I will always be who I really am, no matter how I feel. My walk is strong, my flesh is taking a beating. The battle feels to be raging, yet victory is mine through Christ.

Romans 8:5-10 (MSG)

5Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them--living and breathing God! 6Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. 7Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. 8And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

9But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. 10But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells--even though you still experience all the limitations of sin--you yourself experience life on God's terms.