John 7:4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

There is a catchy little tune in a commercial that says “It’s all about you.” It is as true as true can get in the commercial world. It is all about you.

Here in John 7:4 Jesus’ brethren gives him sage advice. “If I were you, this is what I’d do.” When we do this we interject ourselves into another man’s life. The very same thing is true if the advice is just the opposite. “I’d do this. Don’t be like me.” Different advice but yet the same motivation, to make it all about “ME”.

Romans 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

Are you following the commands of your Master, your Lord? If so great. Does that mean that everyone else has to follow those commands given to you? I’m no Moses, I have not received a Word of the Lord to tell His people what to do. The same goes of repentance. It is my sin to which I repent, it is not for you to repent of my sins. Yet in so many ways that is how we treat others. “I can’t do it, so neither can you.”

The guiding principle of accountability is that a person has to give permission to speak into that person’s life. If permission is not given, what are you doing?

That I cannot answer for you. That is between you and your Lord.

Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Sojourn is defined as a temporary stay. It does not feel like a stay does it? It feels like a journey and when it is used in the bible it is most often used in reference to traveling in a place that is not your home.

We are born into this world and for the longest time it is all we know. This world is our home but yet we are promised that it is not. It is all we know. This is the life we experience every day. Yet the promise is a new life, an abundant life, but it is here in this world where we are born. We are still here temporarily yet the amount of time that we spend “in the Spirit” makes us feel like that life is where we are sojourners.

I have spent hundreds of hours writing thousands of words and hundreds of pages in describing how to “Walk in the Spirit”. I lived out that writing over years and when I got through, I felt I had not explained anything. Words cannot replace doing.

This world we live in is a familiar place. It is literally all we know in sight, sound, taste and touch. It is sensual. This verse in Galatians says as much. Walking in the spirit is a denial of those senses, or at least those things that our senses lead us to do. Walking in the spirit is the closest thing we have as Christians to being home. It is all we have in this world that belongs to our home to come.

We should experience as much as possible this “Walking in the Spirit” while we are in this strange land so that when we go home, we will be at home.