Spirit to Overcome Flesh

Do you know why most people won’t get out of bed on Sunday morning? Just like you and me, they enjoy their downtime. The difference is you cannot convince them their life is not their own.

It isn’t that they don’t want to be fed the Word of God or worship the Lord. They likely do. It’s just very difficult for an American to believe they are not in total ownership of their lives. They lack character because they lack covenant.

A covenant mentality says, “My job is to glorify God no matter what.” A covenant mentality says, “My life is not my own, but God’s.”

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

A lack of a covenant mentality causes Christians to warm a pew on Sunday and then cheat someone out of money on Tuesday. It causes them to enjoy Bible study on Wednesday morning and then spend the afternoon in the gossip cauldron. You see, they don’t believe their business practices, their words, or their life in general actually belong to God.

Here’s the kicker about covenant: Covenant is the only thing that causes God to respond to you! God doesn’t respond to your needs, riches, pain, or poverty. He only responds because He created you – He owns you – and He purchased you back after you willingly became a slave to a cruel master, the devil.

Do you lack Christian character? If you do, you likely lack a covenant mentality. However, that can change! You can get into covenant. It just means changing the way you think, so your actions will begin to change.

Focus on this: Your only job on this earth is to glorify God, no matter what!

Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. – 1 Corinthians 10:31