FLESH,
WALKING IN

BEFORE a balloon is filled with air or helium, it has no life. However, once helium fills a balloon it has the potential to fly high. Most of the time when we go to buy balloons at a carnival or a circus, we look for the ones that are filled with helium and ready for purchase. Those balloons are not flying around because the vendor, to keep them available for sale, ties them down. They will be tied to something intended to keep them on the ground.

Many Christians are aware of the power of the Spirit they have inside but are tied down. They can’t fly high because they are tied down. Walking in the flesh keeps them from experiencing their potential to fly high.311

[Holy Spirit, Power of; Sin Nature, Residue of; Worldliness, Distraction of]

Mark 4:18–19; Heb. 11:1; James 1:14

YOU GO to any cemetery and among the dead you will discover the living—people who work there who take care of the grounds. These are living people operating among the dead. They are facilitating death even though they are very much alive. Unfortunately, today, many Christians who are alive are living in spiritual cemeteries. They are living among the dead. Of all the things the Bible promises, very few of them are very real to these people because they are finding it difficult to get out of the graveyard of their circumstances.312

[Sin Nature, Residue of; Worldliness, Distraction of]

Prov. 5:22; Rom. 6:11–14