Seed for Oct 5

Heb 8:10
10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
(NIV)

What does it mean to be Spirit-led or to “walk in the Spirit”? It simply means to be governed by the Law of God within, as opposed to be governed by religious laws without. God’s people were once governed by laws without, because of sin, the Bible says, but God promised a day when His law would be written in our heart (mind) and it would be that law we would follow. There are many who attempt to know and serve God by following external rules, man made religious rules, or even the 10 commandments. They are walking in the flesh. They are not spiritual. They are just like natural Israel. But there was a day coming, promised God, that His people would be governed by His law written inside their conscience (mind).

Someone can exactly follow man’s law, or religious law, and not possess one iota of what spirit-led life is all about. If you are being governed by religious rules, which only try to perfect the outward man, you have been “bewitched”. Religion in vain attempts to perfect a man from the outside (by rules), while God’s promise was that He would change our minds, and our hearts, and direct us from within. Are you walking in the Spirit? Are you governed by the conscience of God, written in your heart? Or are you walking in the flesh, trying to keep 10,000 commandments of men and religion? Are you trying making the old man better? Or have you decided that the old man is good enough only for death, so that Jesus Christ can live in your mortal body and manifest Himself to the World? Be blessed.

Billy and Jan Wells