Should Be Like Night And Day...

 Happy March!...and here's to our ongoing 'marching' orders!

Where the battle that exists twixt good and evil requires our full attention,

Where living by the Spirit should in no way resemble following the flesh!

Should be like night and day; the old man and the new

What we do now should not relate to what we used to do

Should be like black and white; the way we are and were

Where now we walk by faith, not sight, when we become God’s heir

Should be like dark and light; the world twixt lust and love

A transformation evident by what our choices prove

Should be like death to life; that sacred exodus

We who have fled to take hold of The Hope set before us

...should be like night and day; like a captive set free

When we have put to death the person that we used to be

© Janet Martin

 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, 

if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. 

And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

Romans 8: 8-9

 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? 

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus 

were baptized into His death?…

 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, 

but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life;

 and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 6:1-3, 12-13

Here's some kind caution and encouragement...