Walking in and after the Holy Spirit

Walking in and after the Holy Spirit takes both faith and commitment, but I wonder how many people today are really “walking in and after the Spirit?” In (Rom. 6:11-13) the Apostle Paul outlines for us 3 keys that will help us walk closer to God. 1) Recognize ourselves dead to sin. In (Chp. 7) Paul relates the old life that we had before Christ, to that of a bad marriage, wherein the husband dies and frees the wife to be married to another. This new marriage is the new relationship we now have in Christ, with in whom we now live. 2) Obey him from the heart . In order to obey Christ properly, the believer must dethrone the old master, and let the new master reign. Like a wife in a new marriage, she must obey the new authority in her life, and forsake the old. She must now learn to practice the will and way of her new husband, obeying him from the heart. 3) Submit and yield yourself to him. There can be no fruit without intimacy. Walking with and after a new husband takes yielding. Just as the new wife must yield her all to the will and way of her new husband, so must we yield all to God’s Spirit. For it’s through intimacy with the Holy Spirit that we too will begin to bear the fruits of righteousness!