What are you feeding the baby?

[Jacqueline]

A few months ago God showed me something about myself that really surprised me. It got me wondering how many of His children do this without even knowing it? Anyway... He showed me that the baby in me who is a part of Him is strong, but I'm allowing the baby to feed off of the part of me that is dying. The part that has no place in Him.

I wonder how many of us do that? He's made us new... born again and yet we allow that new being to feed off of our old selves? Feed off of our old fears, old pains, old habits, old sucesses, old dreams, old relationships? How many of us are so busy looking back that we forget to look forward? Feeding off of the very things that He came to free us of? I can't help, but wonder.

God Bless You

Jacqueline

[felix]

greetings.

This is a great revelation. It seems that God wants to make sure we realize that the old man has been crucified and that we are now a new man. Our will should be different, our desires should be different, our minds should be different. We have not yet been perfected but God is in the process of sanctifying us. This is the process of letting the "baby" grow.

The born again man is our regenerated spirit. This is our new man. Added to this new man is the Spirit of God. Our spirit and the Holy Spirit are one (1 cor 6:17). "He showed me that the baby in me who is a part of Him is strong". The spiritual man or the "baby in us" is stronger than our carnal man.

"but I'm allowing the baby to feed off the part of me that is dying". Our old nature is the part of us that is dying. This is our fallen nature which "has no place in Him". Jesus came down to destroy the fallen nature and to redeem our human nature. God intends to graft Himself into our human nature so that we may express the glory of God through our human living.

When we allow the "baby" to feed off the old man or fallen nature however....it eventually dies. The "baby" is not dead dead but in slumber. At that point, the beliver becomes nearly indistinguishable from a non-believer. They will have the same ways, attitudes, thougths, and desires except one will say he does not believe in Jesus and the other will say he does. Simply, the believer is no longer HOLY anymore. Holy is being uncommon or set apart.

I hope that makes sense. Jacqueline, are we on the same page? I'm not sure if I using the term "baby" with the same meaning as yours.

Well, I need to the blood of Christ to wash me anew. I have spent some time in my fallen nature. Oh how I need the grace of God. So I guess it's time for me to look forward and not back. Thank you Lord for your precious blood.

[Liss]

Good food for thought.

[Jacqueline]

Thanks Liss and Felix for the replies. Felix that makes perfect sense. Thank you.

God Bless You

Jacqueline

Edited December 13, 2005 by Jacqueline