Stop Evaluating Yourself In The Flesh Analysis

Stop Evaluating Yourself In the Flesh

I tend to view life based on my five senses more than I should… I know you don’t do that, I’m the issue here!

For example, if I fail in a situation, I see a bill I don’t like, or I hear news that’s negative and it can start to “wear on me”. Stuff begins to bother me and I begin to see myself and my situation through the limiting lens of my five senses, evaluating things only on what I can do within myself.

So, I had to sit myself down and have a talk with myself… strange I know. I needed to be corrected and still do at times. I desperately needed to change my view by asking myself,

What is the proper viewpoint of my situation or more importantly how should I view myself?

2 Cor. 5:16

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”

Literally the verse reads,

“From this point forward, refuse to pay attention to or perceive with your senses ANY ONE according to outward appearances as if they were apart from God and His influence...”

In 2 Corinthians 5:16, Paul the Apostle admonishes believers to STOP evaluating other believers by what is seen on the outside. But the key point I’m making here is that we must remember that this includes ourselves!

If you’re born-again, then they have God living on the inside of you and there is more to you than meets the eye. The Holy Spirit lives with you. Depend upon His wisdom and life to meet your needs through the day. See yourself not as others see you but see yourself as God sees you in the spirit – as an more than a conqueror, healed, etc. If you’re a child of God, you have access to resources that the rest of the world does not. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit and you have power to overcome the world and any obstacle that life may throw at you. The greater one lives in