"Our Light Affliction" -3

"For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of Life." (2 Corinthians 5:4) Okay, so you might see what I was getting at about this being easy if we really want to obey, right? No, you don't? Oh, I forgot to get to that point. I think the first thing we must understand in this Life that we have been given, is that our righteousness is not based upon our actions, but is based upon the actions of Jesus Christ. Secondly, He has clothed us with His righteousness, which means that we are made to look as He did, before the Father; dressed in His obedience. And then we have this thing called the flesh; which, for all that it is worth, it is here now it be a vessel of righteousness! Somehow this must all work for His glory, and the reason that it becomes easy is on several different levels; all of which require us to react to what Jesus has done. For example; faith is our reaction in the form of believing; love that we have for God is our reaction to the Love that was given us; obedience is our reaction to knowing who we are in Christ; etc, etc. The idea that we can actually become holy people, even though we are still living in this tent of unholiness, is not that unthinkable; really. And the point which I believe that Paul was making, is not one of dissatisfaction in who he was, but one that declared who he was in Christ; because in verse one of Romans 8, Paul says, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit". Which, for a lack of better choice of words, is our reaction to being in Christ Jesus: we walk in the Spirit...