As you yield freely and fully to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self-life. For your self-life craves the things that offend the Holy Spirit and hinder him from living free within you! And the Holy Spirit’s intense cravings hinder your old self-life from dominating you! So then, the two incompatible and conflicting forces within you are your self-life of the flesh and the new creation life of the Spirit.
But when you are brought into the full freedom of the Spirit of grace, you will no longer be living under the domination of the law, but soaring above it!
Galatians 5:16-18 (TPT)
Most days I long for the garden, to be delivered from this place. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and I love walking with God right here. But how can it compare to the love we will share on the other side when all the darkness is vanquished? No more sin, no more false self, no more Satan, no more fallenness. It is almost unimaginable.
As glorious as it is to be awake and experience deep healing and freedom in my life, I still get lost. It happens less and less - and yet, still . . .
Just a few weeks ago I was with family and friends enjoying a mini-vacation, and I found myself entertaining harsh, judgmental thoughts toward a family member. This went on for the better part of a day; then, early in day two, I woke up - again! I saw what I was thinking and feeling and knew it wasn’t true, nor was it me. Like a roach surprised by the flick of a light switch, my false self was caught carrying on in the middle of the room, and it was time for the heel of a shoe.
I hate it when I go foggy and lose my way, and I am grateful when the Holy Spirit nudges me, and my true self rises again to take back the wheel from my mutinous false self.
An excerpt from The Heart of a Warrior Journal Workbook.
