Wonderful Morning

⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.Heirs with Christ¹² So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ¹⁵ Foryou did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” ¹⁶  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.     -Romans 8: 5-17

The Spirit dwells in me.The Spirit of God dwells in me. God dwells in me. God in me.

God.

Who created life with a free will, able to choose between Himself and a perfect life and a life of death and destruction.

God.

Who pursued the people who chose destruction to the point of dying Himself.

God.

Who was not satisfied in dying to pay for our sins, so He raised Jesus from the dead to give us a legacy of life abundantly that we continually throw away.

God.

Who feeds thousands with a loaf of bread, converts the lost with one encounter, created the rain cycle, the ecosystem, the perfect balance of creation.

This God abides, pursues, forgives and instructs me. Relentlessly.

"If we have died with him, we will also live with him; 

if we endure, we will also reign with him; 

if we deny him, he also will deny us; 

if we are faithless, he remains faithful—

because He can not deny Himself." 

  2 Timothy 2:12-13