Contemplative Bible Reading

Galatians 5:16 (New Living Translation)

16 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.

I can live my life guided by the Holy Spirit from God. That is super natural or something that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. That is the super nature.

Then there is the sinful nature. Perhaps that, too, is something that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. The following sentences tell us that the sinful nature is the one that wants to do evil.

What will I choose—peace, joy, love or conflict, hate, and jealousy? Huh? How could I possibly choose a life of conflict, hate, and jealousy? How could I ever be that stupid? Somehow, there are days when I am that stupid. What is wrong with me? How can God still accept such a stupid, pathetic character?

But God does. Thanks be to God in the limitless mercy and grace.