Daily Word

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. Romans 8:9. Christians are not in Adam, dominated by the “flesh”, but are under the rule of Christ, because the Spirit who dwells in them is the Spirit of Christ. Though the body is still subject to death, life prevails because those united with Christ live to God in the sphere of the Spirit. The duality in view here is not simply the distinction between the physical and the spiritual sides of the believer’s life, but between two spheres of existence- bodily life in a fallen world with its ever present physical death, and life in the Spirit, a participation in the resurrection of Christ. Think long and hard on this throughout today. What does it mean to you knowing that the Spirit of Christ dwells in you, and how will that change your does that change your life from this point forward?