For the next three blog posts, I want to explore three aspects of human life and how they affect our life as a Christian. When God created Adam He gave him a spirit,a mind and a body. The spirit is the most important because God is Spirit and that is our best means of communicating with Him. We often refer to our spirit as our heart. It is in a real sense who we are. It controls our feelings and provides our moral code. Since Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden, we have inherited the stain of original sin on our spirit. Jesus explains to Nicodemus in John chapter 3 that his mission on Earth is to provide us with a new, reborn spirit that no longer separates us from God; allowing us to communicate with Him directly again and to enter heaven to be with Him for eternity.
It is faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior that provides us with a newly born spirit that works in conjunction with God’s Holy Spirit to give us the power to communicate with and obey God as Adam did before his fall. It is that new spirit within us that identifies us as God’s son or daughter and a Christian. Living the Christian life is simply living in obedience to God and displaying to the world around us the fruit that Spirit produces; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. (see Galatians 5:22-23)
Our spirit is lifted in worship and study of God’s word. It is touched by the needs of others; as we help them overcome their condition and rejoice in their victories. It is our job to love others and not to judge them, but leading them to Christ is an act of love not judgment.