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22 Battle for the Mind for holy living would remain with him, but it would be enhanced with an intense thankfulness for the grace and mercy given to him—a grace and mercy that was not based upon any work that he had ever done, but on Christ’s work alone. the altar within You The mind is the seat of all spiritual and carnal conflict. I’m sure that you’ve noticed by now that the act of becoming a Christian has introduced many internal conflicts into your life. Conversely, one doesn’t really come to know God until he or she experiences personal conflict. Somebody might have, mistakenly, assured you that when you come to God, your troubles will be over. Well, somebody was lying. I’m sure you have learned by now, as many people have, that walking with God is not conflict-free. Whenever people respond to the internal motivation of the Word and come to God, while at the same time cease to react to the external stimulus of the world, they will encounter resistance and turmoil. In fact, the process of moving from the external (depending on a lot of outside sources) to the internal (depending on God and self) can be chaotic at best. Paul, in the Book of Romans, addresses this conflict as he endeavors to define and clarify the opposing forces that operate to gain influence on the mind. When we come to Romans chapter 7, we find that he laments his own condition: But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank
The Street That Leads to Success—Truth From the Book of Romans 23 God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin (Romans 7:17-25). It is in the mind that we wrestle with the spiritual and carnal nature. Because we have the power to choose, we find ourselves engaged in the daily battle of deciding between life and death. “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Rom. 8:6). Many give their lives to Christ believing that all they have to do is attend church on Sunday, turn over all their problems to God, and subsequently, God will keep the conflict and they then get to go home to live free from their problems. Au contraire, it doesn’t work like that. You can’t just take your sin and your circumstances to the Lord and leave them in some mythical place, thinking that this will resolve the conflict. It is natural that when you give your life to Christ you want to be free of all your issues. You come to Him seeking peace and a refuge from the troubling storms of life that daily permeate your existence. You want to leave them somewhere far, far away. So, you take them to the altar to leave them with God. But, where is the altar if it is not in you? The only altar on which you can lay your troubles is the altar within you. If God is in you, then He is the one who introduces the conflict in order that when you meet God at that place of surrender (the altar), He can begin to replace those things that have always caused conflict between your carnal or sinful desires and the will of the spirit. It is important to understand that your struggle is not with the devil; it is with God, for God has set you up, through the introduction of conflict into your life, in order to bring you to a place of maturity. It is God who often initiates conflict in our lives (except for that selfinduced conflict that comes from our own immaturity). Since God is in humanity, when we meet Him at the internal altar, it is in our own minds and hearts where God begins to replace the sinful desires that are inherent in us. How does He do that? He must replace the old mind with a new mind that will now desire spiritual things. In seeking Christ, we eventually discover the freedom we have always longed for.
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