“My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?”
Following on the heels of yesterday’s advice, Paul is continuing to dish it out to the early Christians. Advice that is as good today as it was then: allow the Holy Spirit to dwell within you so as to affect a transformation within your life — slowly but surely. Don’t be quick to subject yourself to a “law-dominated existence”, one that is perhaps not truly sincere and one steeped in selfishness. Instead, if you are a believer, allow God’s presence in the form of the Holy Spirit to guide you, check you, direct you, support you, lead you, and be your constant companion?
