Spiritual well being requires continual safeguarding. Our spiritual food is needed on a daily basis just as is physical nourishment. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4)." Your daily focus must be on your Lord (Hebrews 12:3) and the things of God (Matthew 6:33). To skip a day of walking (spending time in His Word, prayer, and service) with your Lord is to have a day of spiritual deterioration. It is a dangerous thing!
How many days does it take before your focus has changed from being set on what the spirit desires to what the sinful nature desires?
Once you have reached and cross the point of having your focus taken off of the spiritual and placed on the physical how long will it take to return?
Most likely it will take us much longer than we had planned and we may or may not ever regain the fervor for our Lord that we once had.
Before you decide you're just going to skip praying today, skip reading His Word, skip having that quiet time with the Lord today - think. Think of how great the cost is from changing the direction of your life from "life and peace" to that of "death."
Proverbs 18:9.
He who is slothful in his work is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.
Proverbs 19:15
Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Romans 8:5-6.
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, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Sin is a fundamental relationship;
it is not wrong doing,
it is wrong being,
it is intentional and categorical independence of God.
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ took upon Himself the heredity of sin which no man can touch. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint. All through the Bible it is revealed that Jesus bore the sin of the world by identification, not by sympathy. He deliberately took upon Himself the whole massed sin of the human race - "He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin," and by so doing He put the whole human race on the basis of Redemption. Jesus Christ rehabilitated the human race; He put it back to where God designed it to be, and anyone can enter into union with God on the ground of what Our Lord has done on the Cross.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
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