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Book Description: “Not Beyond Today” is Part 47 of The Book Of Benjamin Kareth. God has been teaching me these past six years of walking closely with Him how to live this life He has given me. He has been teaching me how to do what He has asked me to do. And that “how” is by living in today, by not looking “beyond today” but simply by living moment by moment with Him. This I have come to call: “Not Beyond Today”.

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Chapter 6: Breaking Free

We have a war raging within us. On one side stands our flesh, the part of us still bent toward serving our own will and having our own way and defining for ourselves what is good and what is evil, and on the other side we have our renewed, reborn spirit that is filled with the Holy Spirit of the Living God.

Our flesh is a tyrannical dictator that demands its own way. It raises its hands in abject revolt against the Most High God. Only God knows the true evil of our heart of hearts.

But there is amazing news for us:

“For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.” – Galatians 5:13 AMP

We are called to freedom in Jesus Christ.

Freedom from our selfish inclinations.

Freedom from our self-seeking ways.

Freedom from all those things that rise within us against the knowledge of God.

Jesus bought and fully paid for our freedom, but we must choose to walk in that freedom.

If we are to live Not Beyond Today, we must learn to walk in the Holy Spirit. But how? How do we do this? How do we “Walk In The Spirit”?

“But I say, walk habitually in the [Holy] Spirit [seek Him and be responsive to His guidance], and then you will certainly not carry out the desire of the sinful nature [which responds impulsively without regard for God and His precepts]. For the sinful nature has its desire which is opposed to the Spirit, and the [desire of the] Spirit opposes the sinful nature; for these [two, the sinful nature and the Spirit] are in direct opposition to each other [continually in conflict], so that you [as believers] do not [always] do whatever [good things] you want to do. But if you are guided and led by the Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.” – Galatians 5:16-18 AMP

What can we do to walk in the Holy Spirit? Simply this… give God your time, your attention, your heart, and your life. It’s a hard pill to swallow, this world has so many shiny things that easily fill up our time and consume our attention.

We watch whatever we want to watch on YouTube or on a streaming service and then wonder why we struggle continuously with lust and greed.

We watch the news continuously and then wonder why we struggle with anxiety and panic over tomorrow.

What fellowship can light have with darkness? We are children of light, and we should be simply putting our focus on the things above and not on things below.

Where do your appetites lie? Do you have a craving for the things of God or of the world? Hard questions to be sure but ones that need to be answered if we are to draw closer and closer to the Lord.

We must become unknown even unto ourselves and this means that we must become so focused on God and living in Him that we completely lose sight of ourselves. This is what it means to take up our cross and follow Jesus Christ. We must truly die to ourselves and live to love God and others. If we are seeking our selfish desires, then we cannot seek God or to love others. To break free of that greedy grasping and fretful worrying about tomorrow we must die to our selfish nature and live for the cross of Jesus Christ. We must chase after and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit today.

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