2Cor.5:17(Amp) tells us, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether). The old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation is one in God's Own Spirit, made in God's Own Image by Jesus. Jesus is the Seed from Whom we are born-again. This is a being we have no idea of his/her potential or ability, because he/she is of a different Kingdom and Life altogether. The only way to "know" the real you, is to know Jesus. We don't know who we really have become in this new creation, until we fully know the One Who created us.
We can see and imitate our earthly father in this natural realm, by watching and following his example. Eph.5:1(Amp) says, "Therefore be imitators of God, copy Him and follow His Example as well-beloved children imitate their fathers." We can read how our Example, Jesus walked with the Father in the flesh and we have God's Word which shows us how to walk before Him. David wrote in Psalm 17:4-5(Amp), "Concerning the works of men, by the Words of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent (the paths of the destroyer) My steps have held closely to the tracks of the One Who has gone on before; my feet have not slipped."
We can avoid the "paths of the destroyer (satan)," by watching Jesus and reading His Word. When we walk in our own understanding, we walk in the way were were raised in the flesh and the world. We had never walked in this new creation Life we now have in Jesus, so we must be instructed in how to walk it. The world will try forcing us into a position, in order to control us and our actions. God will free us from control and put us into a place where we submit and choose to walk with Him, because we love Him.
Many today believe that God will make us do what is right or righteous, but the Truth of the Word says we're to "submit yourself," in James4:7-8(Amp) saying, "So be subject (submitted) to God, Resist the devil (stand firm against him), and he will flee from you. Come close to God and He will come close to you." We've allowed the devil to have access into our lives, because we didn't know or submit to the instructions given us by the Word and the Spirit.
Reading God's Word isn't to be a religious exercise, but is reading the instructions on how to imitate our Heavenly Father. We've never seen God our Father with our natural eyes, but we can see Jesus in the Word. We can imitate Jesus in our natural body and train our new creation person how to submit to the instruction given our spirit being, which we've been born into. Before being born of the Spirit, we walked in what we were taught or learned on our own from the world. Now we have the Holy Spirit to teach us.
Rom.8:14-15(Amp) says, "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For the Spirit which you have now received is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but your have received the Spirit of adoption, the Spirit producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry Abba, Father, Father." The spirit of the world is based on slavery and bondage, where the god of this world forced us to do his will. The Spirit of our Father has loosed us from bondage and fear, so we can walk with Him and submit to Him in love and respect for Who He is.
David told us in Psalm 17 that, "By the Words of God's lips, he avoided the ways of the violent, the paths of the destroyer." God's Word is a path that leads to protection from enemy, if we walk in it and follow God's path. If we follow the road signs, then we won't get lost, so we must read the Map. Most of us drive vehicles with GPS built in, that tells us and shows us how to get where we are going. Or, we use our phones to do so. If we make a wrong turn, then we're told how to turn around and and get back on track. God's Word and the Holy Spirit will do the same. GPS in God's Kingdom, stands for God's Protection Service," which tells us how and where to go.
The Lord speaks about the time of the new creation and how He will deal with them, in Isaiah30:19-21(Amp), saying, "O people who dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be Gracious to you at the sound of your cry when He hears it, He will answer you And thought the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself anymore, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher. And your ears will hear a Word behind you, saying, This is the way; walk in it, when you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left."
We're only required to follow the Voice of God's GPS and we will be alright. This Voice is the Voice of the Holy Spirit speaking in our spirit. Psalm119:105(Amp) says, "Your Word is a Lamp unto my feet and a Lamp to my path." God's Word illuminates the path we are to walk. The Holy Spirit will keep tell us where to turn, if we will listen and watch where we put our feet.
When we spend time in God's Word and listen to the Holy Spirit, we can walk in the protection and Blessing that His family covenant has Promised. God will never force or drive us, like the world does. He will lead us, as the Shepherd of Psalm23 declares. Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice, and will not follow the voice of a stranger." We need to learn His Voice (the Word) for ourselves.
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