The Dominant Third | The Worshipper's Thought of the Day

We are all works in progress.  However, as we progress towards being the finished works GOD desires, we become more acquainted with our troublesome spots.  And if we're willing to be honest with ourselves, we often times allow our dissatisfaction with these areas of our lives to overshadow how we see ourselves.  It's the guilt of our sin that perpetuates this struggle--an ongoing identity crisis (for some) that stifles the growth of even the most well-intending of Christians.  So let me encourage you, Kingdom citizen...YOU are not your ISSUE.

Everything about us that's contrary to GOD and the culture of His Kingdom is not really us.  We are spirit beings who have been given souls and live in bodies.  At our very core, we are spirit beings; and cemented therein is my identity and yours, as the redeemed of GOD.  When we accepted the free gift of salvation and eternal life, we were born again after the incorruptible seed of the Holy Spirit (Romans 6:23; 1 Peter 1:23).  And since everything produces after its own kind according to GOD's established order (Genesis 1:12, 21, 25), we are therefore spirit beings that are perfect even as our Father is simply because spirits birth spirits (John 3:5-7).  The aspects of us that disagree with GOD's ways are in no way a reflection of our spiritual nature.  These sore spots are characteristic of our humanity, our means of expression, and the anatomical faculties we've been given to make sense of the world around us (Romans 7:18).

When considering all our negatives, it's imperative that we understand they're just manifestations of us being born into sin and shapen in iniquity (Psalm 51:5).  Those bad habits, tortuous addictions, flawed traits and ungodly thoughts are ALL inherited from the sin of one man Adam (Romans 5:12).  That's how sin entered the world; and as it's traveled through the bloodline of humanity, sin has had thousands of years to permeate the very atmosphere in which live.  Therefore, even though our spirits have been reborn and made perfect, we still must grapple with the remaining two-thirds of us that has not been born again and is VERY much imperfect.

So how then does the perfect third of us even stand a chance against the imperfect two-thirds?  Upon receiving the gift of salvation unto eternal life, we were reconciled to the Kingdom of GOD (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).  Although we now have dual citizenship in Heaven and Earth, the Bible says that GOD's Kingdom ruleth over all (Psalms 103:19).  It matters not then that our spirit man is ONLY one-third of who we are because its origin is that of the dominant kingdom, which has the power to overrule our souls and bodies if given the authority to do so.  As free will agents, the choice is ours concerning the kingdom who's influence to which we yield.  It's our Father's will that we live from the inside out (as He created us to live), that the presence of the dominant, invisible kingdom within us be given permission to sit on the throne of our hearts and govern the visible and invisible us completely.  It's through the governing influence of the Holy Spirit that our souls and bodies are aligned with our spirits, and our invisible core identity becomes visibly apparent to others through our lifestyles.