Keep in Step

"You, my brothers, were called to be free, but do not use your freedom to indulge in the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Galatians 5

Most of us have read this command many times in our life. We have heard it in various ways. It is so important that we remember the last part. When people devour each other I think of things like judging others, gossip, and many other hurtful things toward others so it makes sense that it will destroy. I have personally seen this happen and never want to experience it again. This result comes when we are not following the single command to love your neighbor as yourself. If we are seeking to live this out daily in our life how can we devour each other? If our intent is to daily love one another I picture a people praying for each other, speaking words of encouragement, and even if you have to confront someone that it is done in love.

Paul says "So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature." and "Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other."

I have days when I feel so strong in the Spirit - I love those days. Daily I seek him to fill me up. Keeping in step with the Spirit is so cool. As a little child I always had to run when my dad took me for a walk. He was a short man, but had a fast pace, but I wanted to keep up with him. So is our walk sometimes with Christ. Sometimes we can fall back and have to run to keep up - the things of this world can so get in the way and distract us and we have to just keep up. Some days it feels like we are just running to stay in step with the Spirit - and other times when we have surrendered completly to Christ our walk is moving along with a steady walking together.

What joy!