J.A. Matteson
03.06.09
Yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. Philippians 1:24
By sojourning with the Lord in faithful obedience the manifest outcome for the Apostle was simplicity. Spiritual discernment entails distinguishing between the simple and the complex, cultivating the former while mortifying the later. The tendency of the flesh is to interpret life through the prism of complexity which distresses the mind and dilutes spiritual fruitfulness. The orientation of simplicity is always towards the cross while complexity redirects the mind to the cares of the flesh and the world, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24). Inherent to the fallen nature is complexity and the saint finds himself frustrated in his progress towards simplicity, “For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members” (Romans 7:22-23).
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