UV 3347/10000 Moving From A Three Dimensional Flawed Life to the Five Dimensional Victorious LIfe
For the spirit that God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self discipline.
2 Timothy 1 v 7
Our own spirit is prone to fear, weaknesses, excesses. But the spirit that God sealed us with, namely, the Holy Spirit, equips, teaches, reminds, encourages, guides, strengthens us that we can live the five dimensional spiritual life of devotion to God, dedication to serve people, determination to pursue set goals in line with the vision the Lord has given us, diligence to study the word and meditate day and night, discipline in all things. We as believers are not called to lead an extrinsically successful life but a victorious life. We draw our strength to endure till the end from His miraculous grace, His power, His wisdom, His love, His peace. These are like the five fingers of the Lord that rest upon us, preserving us from evil from within us and without.
It is the Holy Spirit who enables us to live out the agape love of Jesus in our lives with all the attributes that St Paul so beautifully described in his epistle to the Corinthian believers. Any form of hatred, envy, bitterness comes from our common spiritual enemy. The Holy Spirit helps us overcome these negatives that harm our well being and our relationships. He builds or weaves love into the warp and woof of our character so that we closely resemble Jesus.
The three primal sins of lust of the eye, lust of the flesh and pride of life causes human downfall and misery. The sensual or carnal world cultivates and grows only these three flawed dimensions of our earthly lives. The Holy Spirit who dwells in us and fills us replaces our fears with a sense of security in Christ, assurance about the present life as well as the life to come. He gives us the grace to discipline our thoughts, our emotions, our speech, our desires. He corrects us when we go wrong and gives us the strength to rise when we fall or stumble. He endows us the boldness or bravery of the soldier, the patience of the farmer and the sense of commitment and focus of the athlete. The courage, patience, discipline are taken to new level or plane as we are not looking for an earthly reward that does not last but an everlasting prize of eternal life in Christ.
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