The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace, because the sinful mind is hostile to God.
It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Romans 8: 6,7
“Walking with God implies that the prevailing power of the enmity of a person’s heart be taken away by the blessed Spirit of God.
Perhaps it may seem a hard saying to some, but our own experience daily proves, what the Scriptures in many places assert, that the carnal mind,
the mind of the unconverted natural man,
and even the mind of the regenerate, so far as any part of him remains unrenewed, is enmity,…
Our first parents contracted it when they fell from God by eating the forbidden fruit…and the same enmity rules and prevails in every man that is naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam…”
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Excerpt from George Whitefield Daily Readings
Edited by Randall J. Pederson P.1
Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.” Exodus 5:2
“This one thing”- saith the man
of God -“I do.”
He separates himself from all outward
hindrances, vain company,
trifling amusements or studies, needless
engagements, that he may seek and intermeddle
with all wisdom. Without it – Christian –
thy soul can never prosper.
How canst thou intermeddle with the great
wisdom of knowing thyself, if thy whole mind
be full of this world’s chaff and vanity?
There must be a withdrawal to “commune with
thine own heart” and to ask questions –
“Where art thou? What doest thou here?”
Much is there to be inquired into and pondered.
Everything here calls for our deepest, closest
thoughts. We must walk with God in secret, or
the enemy will walk with us, and our souls will die.
“Arise go forth into the plain, and I will walk
with thee.” Like thy Divine Master, thou wilt never
be less alone than when alone.
Charles Bridges (1794-1869)
