Whirlwind of Wills

Romans 8: 14 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Most of us will be familiar with this saying, "The heart wants what the heart wants" one of its variants. The key message of this statement is that sometimes you cannot control what your heart (emotions) wants especially when your heart wants it badly. This statement is true in many ways, but it gives one side of a picture in which there are so many sides.





Your heart wants what it wants, your spirit wants what it wants, your mind wants what it wants and your body wants what it wants. Life is good when all these facets of your person want the same thing. e.g Your decide you want to loose weight (mind), you are excitedly looking forward to the slimmer you (heart), your body cooperates by loosing all appetite for yummy food. Wait, opps! does that ever happen? You body will probably protest each step of the way. Each of the wants that your body, spirit, soul, or heart wants creates a certain amount of WILL and in every case where there is a conflict, the WILL you give into determines your actions.

So we know from previous posts that YOU-Spirit (when connected to God) will ALWAYS want to do God's will. We also know that the mind is fed by knowledge and information and YOU(mind) will always want to do what makes sense to you. At the same time, YOU (body) will want things that bring comfort and enjoyment, while YOU (HEART) will want things that make you feel wonderful,great,happiness,peace and strongest of all love. This is by no means an exhaustive list, many other thing will try to exert their WILL on you (society, friends, family e.t.c)

Let us consider this in light of these Verses in Ephesians 4

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Here it says that as new creatures we should no longer walk IN THE FUTILITY OF OUR MINDS like those whose spirits are still dead (separated from God). i.e even as a new creature, born of God, your mind is not infallible (it can think wrong thoughts),  your heart is not the guiding line for your life, it can be deceived (guard it with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life). Your spirit (in communion with the Holy spirit)  is the sure source of direction at all times. I am sure we agree with this, but the real question is this, is it possible to follow you your spirit when your heart, body and mind are putting so much pressure on you to do otherwise?

The you, you have is as a result of the you, you feed. The truth is that no matter how your much your body wants that chocolate, it cannot have it until you give your hand permission to pick it up and your mouth permission to open and chew. No matter how much your heart wants a certain forbidden someone, your hand cannot pickup the telephone to call that person unless you give in to your heart's WILL and give your hand permission. Take conscious control to do what your spirit wants and feed your spirit with God's word so that the WILL of your spirit will also be able to push\lead you in the right direction. Gods direction. Renew your mind with God's word so your mind will cooperate with your spirit and make it easier for you to do what is right. When all fails and all your mind, body and heart want to go against what your spirit knows is right, it will feel like a whirlwind pulling you towards something you want and don't want at the same time. PRAY for strength and consciously tell yourself NO.

You are the owner of yourself, yourself is not the owner of you. 

Romans 8: 14 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

God Bless

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father in heaven, I thank you for your love for me. I thank you because you know me inside and out and made a provision for all my needs in Christ Jesus. Help me Lord, Please give me the strength and give me grace to stand firm on your precepts even when my emotions and desires are like a whirlwind tossing me to and flow. I say Peace be Still in my life and rest in the knowledge that you will lead me in the path of righteousness and bring me to fulfillment of purpose. Thank you for your grace and mercy. I commit my family unto your hands make each and everyone of us a blessing in Jesus Name

AMEN