*LIVING SEEDS DEVOTIONALS*
(Life Transforming Words)
Day:99 |Friday April 9th|2021
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*LED BY THE SPIRIT*
_For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8:14 (KJV).
Different people are led today by different means, and this is the reason why many are led astray. Some have gone into making wrong decisions, because the Holy spirits has not totally taken his place. Until the Holy spirit takes his place, we would not attain the standard of God in accessing divine Gods leading. The first thing that strikes me is that the leading of the Spirit of God of which it speaks is not something peculiar to eminent saints, but something common to all God's children, the universal possession of the people of God. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. We have here, in effect, a definition of the sons of God. The primary purpose of the sentence is not, indeed, to give this definition. But the statement is so framed as to equate its two members, and even to throw a stress upon the co-extensiveness of the two designations. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these and these only are sons of God.
Therefore, the leading of the Spirit is presented as the very characteristic of the children of God. This is what differentiates them from all others. All who are led by the Spirit of God are thereby constituted the sons of God, and none can claim the high title of sons of God who are not led by the Spirit of God. The leading of the Spirit thus appears as the constitutive fact of sonship. And we dare not deny that we are led by God's Spirit, lest we therewith repudiate our part in the hopes of a Christian life. In this aspect of it, our text is the exact parallel of the immediately preceding declaration, which it therefore takes up and repeats But if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, that one is not His(Rom. 8:9). It is obviously a mistake, therefore, to look upon the claim to be led by God's Spirit as an evidence of spiritual pride. It is rather a mark of spiritual humility. This leading of the Spirit is not some peculiar gift reserved for special sanctity and granted as the reward of high merit alone. It is the common gift poured out on all God's children to meet their common need, and is the evidence, therefore, of their common weakness and their common unworthiness. The dimensions of being led by the spirits is an aftermath of the results of the conquered over the dictate of the old man.
Any one who walks after the spirit will be directed by the spirits. It is what you allow into your life that dictate to you, if you walk according to the leading of the flesh, the flesh dictate for you, but if you walk by the spirits, the spirits directs you(Gal 5:16, Rom 8:1). No reasonable person will like to make free moral choice to live according to the deeds of the flesh( Eph 4:22, col 3:5). Those who have submitted to the will of God are identified as the sons of God ( Gal 5:18). One must keep this in mind that this is not a subjective urge supposedly given by the spirits, else we return to what Paul was refuting in this context. Those who are led by the flesh are following the inventions of human emotional and traditional religion that lead men away from dependence on God for direction. Those who are led by the spirits of God seek the will of God in order to determine their lives(Rom 3:31). Those who behave according to the spirits-inspired direction of God are not living according to their desires to live after their own wills. Walking in the spirits is the same as walking in the light. By walking in the light, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. The person who live after the spirit has crucified the old man of sin(Rom 6:6; Gal 2:20). He has put to death the desire to flesh to direct the affairs of his or her lives( Eph. 2:1-3). The person who lives according to desires to live after the flesh in order to follow his own will is headed.
