SPIRIT/FLESH

2 Peter 3:17-18 (KJV)
“17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”
Are we being led by the spirit or by the flesh? Both are filled and driven with passion; and at times, in the heat of passion there is such a thin line between the two and one would not know the difference without some learning. Scripture is the dividing instrument between the two called “The Sword of the Spirit” which is the Word of God- “dividing asunder both spirit and soul.” Then we must choose which we will follow. Many have failed at the height of passion when not harnessed by the grace teaching us to deny ungodliness. Deny? Yes, deny, resist, insist, and just right out allow ourselves to be educated by grace. It is sometimes a long journey to learn; spirit is not something we attain it is something we must learn by yielding ourselves to it as it is graciously given to us by God. This process is what we must acknowledge in scripture as “Learning Jesus.”
Just how is this learning connected to grace? Grace is somehow the teacher teaching us Jesus. We must yoke ourselves up to it (grace). Passion can be deceiving and it takes the “…knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ…” we receive from grace to keep deception at bay.