![man has a spirit to contact God and a mind to be continually set on the spirit [picture: clear sky in the morning, when we lovingly contact the Lord]](http://www.agodman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/clear-sky-contact-God5-207x300.jpg "man has a spirit to contact God and a mind to be continually set on the spirit [picture: clear sky in the morning, when we lovingly contact the Lord]")
Praise the Lord for Romans 8 – the center, the focus, of the Bible and of the entire universe! What we see in this chapter is very mysterious and abstract, but nonetheless crucial and focal to God’s economy. If we experience Romans 8, we are in the center of the universe! In this chapter we see that God Himself is life to our body, soul, and spirit – more precisely, “that the Spirit of life, the law of the Spirit of life, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of the resurrecting One are all one in the Spirit, who is life to our spirit, mind, and body“. Wow, what a view of the Christian life and God’s intention!
Romans 8: the focus of God’s economy
We know God through His Word, which is His breathing out, His expression, the utterance of His heart’s desire. What did God desire in eternity past, before He created? What is God’s intention? In Eph. 1:3-5 we see that the desire of God’s heart in eternity past is to have a group of people into which He can enter, He could be their life and everything, so that they may be His corporate expression. Read more via,
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