Are you living according to the Spirit?

 

Brothers and sisters:

Now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus

has freed you from the law of sin and death. 

For what the law, weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do,

this God has done:

by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh

and for the sake of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

so that the righteous decree of the law might be fulfilled in us,

who live not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

For those who live according to the flesh

are concerned with the things of the flesh,

but those who live according to the spirit

with the things of the spirit. 

The concern of the flesh is death,

but the concern of the spirit is life and peace.

For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God;

it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

But you are not in the flesh;

on the contrary, you are in the spirit,

if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.

Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

But if Christ is in you,

although the body is dead because of sin,

the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

the one who raised Christ from the dead

will give life to your mortal bodies also,

through his Spirit that dwells in you.

~Romans 8:1-11

I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord,

but rather in his conversion that he may live.

~Ezekiel 33:11

Are you living according to the Spirit? I loved these Bible verses today from mass! So profound! We need to know we have God in us! We need to live with Him in us always. Stay in constant prayer and live upright and holy lives for Heaven, not for flesh and things of this world! This Bible verse is likely one of the most important messages for all of us as humans in how to live on this Earth School journey we are one here! God wants us to have conversion to Him! He wants us to have life eternal! We all need to remember that the concern of the flesh is death, but the concern of the spirit is life and peace. Do you want life and peace? Then stay in Spirit, live according to the Spirit! That is what really matters in this life! Do you want life and peace? Live always according to the Spirit!