The Holy Spirit Guides Us, Not Our Flesh – (Proverbs 16:32)

Daily Bible Study
The Bible considers a person who controls their spirit, through submission to the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit, better than a strong and mighty warrior. God cannot use someone who is led by the flesh. God cannot use a prideful person who is influenced by this fallen world and controlled by their ego. Someone who gives into their emotions when they become angry, hurt or slighted by the world and others. Someone who will give up the cause of Christ at the first sign of adversity or damage to their pride and ego. This is because God told us in His word, that we fight not against people, but against the "principalities and powers." "Principalities and powers," are Biblical names for demons, and what the Bible is warning us against is spiritual warfare. Why? Because spiritual warfare is waged all around us! The adversity and struggles we face, begin in the spiritual world as warfare, long before they are manifested in the life of the Christian.

Therefore, we fight through faith, through prayer, through God's word and through a constant reliance on the Holy Spirit. God has given us spiritual armor with which to stand against the attacks we face. Attacks that will come because we live in this dark and fallen world. These are needed because this present world is under the control of Satan, whom the Apostle Paul calls the, "prince of the power of the air." Therefore, this present world will always fight against the Gospel of Christ, it will always be at enmity with God until Christ returns. As Jesus told us, "in this world we will have tribulation." Therefore, "we are to be of good cheer because Christ has overcome the world." And we in like manner through the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, using God's armor, as the Apostle Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesian church, can overcome the struggles we face in our lives. But to do so, first requires that we turn our life over to the Lord, and follow the guidance and promptings of the Holy Spirit in our day to day lives.