[Manna - September 24]
I keep my body under, and bring it into subjection: lest...I myself should be a castaway. 1 Corinthians 9:27
THERE is a tendency for the body, the flesh, to arise
from its condition of reckoned deadness, hence the
new nature needs to be continually on the alert to
maintain its ascendancy, to fight the good fight of
faith and to gain the prize as an overcomer.
These
battlings of the new mind against the flesh are a good
fight in the sense that they are fightings against sins
and weaknesses that belong to the fallen nature.
They
are a fight of faith in the sense that the entire course
of the New Creature is a course of faith, as the apostle
says, "We walk by faith and not by sight."...It is a fight of faith in the sense that no one could
keep up this battle against his own flesh and its propensities
and desires, except as he can exercise faith
in the promises and in the Lord as his helper. Z.'03-425 R3275:3