GPS locator of your purpose & meaning
Are we truly Living? Psalms 126: 1. Where are our dreams & purposes of life? Are we living just to breath ,exist and be in good health ?
When does meaning & purpose about your Life become vital to you. As soon as you rise above mere survival level and experience a freedom from any bondage . If i interview a famished Somalian african or a person who is ill from birth onwards, on the subject of meaning & purpose of life, that question doesn’t make any sense to him at all. When the ground underneath you is shaking :- In midst of this , how are we going to find the purpose & meaning of life. We are not any different or discreet from that Somalian . We are always in the action mode or do mode . Our mind is unsteady & disturbed. We are all caught up in routines of daily life, running around, some lost in frantic undertaking & others by acute boredom. But the true purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer self or in other words , it doesn’t concern with what you do …. It does not concern with what you do, but with “ WHAT YOU ARE.”
Let me be more specific, True purpose of LIFE depends on your identity , what you are. In other words, meaning and purpose doesn’t concern on what you do , but with your identity in Christ.Your identity depends not on your outer self , but your inner man
Eph. 2:10 I am God’s workmanship (handiwork) created in Christ to do the work He planned beforehand that I should do.
I had made the frustrating, tragic mistake of trying to find the kingdom of God, which is righteousness, peace and joy (see Romans 14:17), starting with things and through other people. I didn’t realize the kingdom of God is within us, as the apostle Paul wrote in Colossians 1:27. My joy—and my identity—had to be found in Christ alone.
Spiritman & Flesh man
Spiritman : – Inner being- delights in law of God-Primary man – eternal life- Finds the purpose of Life- Driven by God’s wisdom- renews day by day
Flesh man: - Outer self- delights in law of sin- Focuses on Doing –Secondary man- Purposes are temporary and can change as time passes.- Driven by thoughts & earthly wisdom- Decays day by day
Rom 7: 21-25 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 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.24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank 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.
2 Cor 4:16
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Outer man(flesh man) & inner man(spirit)
Phil 3:19-21Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.>> Outer man
20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ( Our spirit converses with the Spirit(Holy spirit) )
God created or formed the Flesh man .The spirit man was born from him.(Gen2: 7, And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath (ruah or spirit ) of life; and man became a living soul) . As the event unfolds , we know that the spirit man lost its glory when they sinned. The connectivity of spirit & the Spirit went haywire. So naturally all intentions of his creation failed its original purpose. Gen 3:17. All creation was cursed including the nature . Rom 8:20.
We are born as natural or flesh man & progressively it becomes spiritual as we start feeding on the spritual food , day by day .
1Cor15:45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living soul( being)”;[a] the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Cor15:46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.( Phil 3: 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ).
A Flesh man considers the things of spirit man to be folly 1 Cor: 2: 14 . What is the sign that you are still living only in the flesh ? If there is no internal tug of war between flesh & spirit , it means you are only living in the flesh ( Gal 5:17).
How do you sense that your spirit man is alive intially?
We start depending on God for our daily needs . Our spirit will walk with the Holy Spirit .( Gal5:16)
How can we strengthen our spirit man.?
We ourselves cannot strengthen our spirit or inner man .The Spirit of God strengthens our spirit or inner man.Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Why should we strengthen our spirt man?
We can find the true purpose of our life only through the identity of our spirit man.We are sons of God through the spirit . Remember Gen 2:7 we discussed above . Flesh & blood cannot inherit kingdom of God, 1 Cor 15: 50 . God is a Spirit , his sons are also in spirit . Rom8: 9,10 & 16 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Who is superior, spirit or flesh man ?
The spirit man has superiority & control over the flesh man. The flesh man was created for the spirit man. Not the other way round . Adam & Eve before the fall were glorious spiritual beings , they were not conscious about their Flesh body nature. But as they sinned, the spirit consciousness left & their awareness of the flesh intiated. 2 Cor 4:16 “ For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” Flesh body man is secondary to the spirit man. The spirit man is superior. Paul says in 2 Cor 5: 16, “ Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. “ To Paul ,Christ was revealed in Spirit form. Our spirit should control our Flesh body mind. Our primary life & its purpose is on the spirit man. On the contrary ,what happens often is that we use our Flesh being to control the primary purpose of Life. Actually spirit has authority over flesh . We operate our life with the flesh body man . We are image of God in spirit. God gave Adam the power to dominate over all creation in his spirit . Gen 1:26
With What material does God strengthen our spirit ?
Gods wisdom is transferred from Spirit of God to spirit of man. It gives life for the spirit man and health for our Flesh man.
Prov 4:22 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
If you don’t have Gods wisdom(God’s word) , you become purposeless and your life is a life of slavery, bondage & death. It has to be used and applied by faith.
Faith rests on God’s Wisdom,Rom 10:17.
We receive the wisdom from Spirit of God generating Faith.
Where do we falter or have a problem? Whenever we try to comprehend the spirit man with the flesh, with our works or when We try to find solution to our primary issues in life by using our flesh man nature and wisdom . Let me try to give an Eg : We want to see God through our physical eyes , which is a flesh thought. How can flesh man see a God who is in the spirit . When I had trouble in overcoming my sugar, chlolestrol, triglyceride & thyroxine through medicines . I started consuming lot of medicines, treatments etc , meeting every Doctor in town and lot of tests .I ( the flesh man)was desperate to do anything earthly to get it fixed. My flesh man said , I was diabetic ,I will die soon eating medicines from this age, it all ended up futile . Nothing worked . St Paul addressed me with a special name very loudly - Foolish, Gal3: 2-3 . He says- Are you trying to perfect your self with the Flesh. I never knew that I had a spirit .
However when I strengthened my spirit man , my focus was no longer on my outer self or sugar or any symptom, but instead started believing that I am a son of God, Christ Spirit in me could provide the healing I needed . Thanks to God.
Our spirit is our true identity . It is WHAT YOU ARE. Your purpose & meaning of life is attached with WHAT YOU ARE in the spirit. Not what you are in the flesh body man. Because it is only the spirit that has eternal life, it is in the spirit that you have an inheritance. It is the spirit that needs Life . It is the spirit that has promises . Its our spirit that calls upon the Spirit of God. Deep calls unto Deep, Ps 42: 7 . Only our spirit man can do the Will of God with the help of the Holy Spirit . 1Cor 2: 14 “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
The spiritual man only, is the person to whom God gives the knowledge of his will. How little have any known of the mind of God by natural power! And the apostles were enabled by his Spirit to make known his mind. In the Holy Scriptures, the mind of Christ, and the mind of God in Christ, are fully made known to us.
If you know What or Who you are in the spirit , then this spiritual identity helps you in interaction with others using that identity. It gives meaning & purpose to yourself and people can feel your existence. Or else you don’t exist for them. Why does a Mother Teresa still exist in our minds …
There is clarity & stability in your mind about how you need to interact with others . There is peace, joy & every moment becomes thrilling . Even the Cross was a joy for Christ. Heb 12: 2, “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, “ Every situation becomes victorious. Now then you are not just existing , but LIVING. Ask God to reveal your identity today.