The Bible says, “The just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17), but most believers do not live there, that is to say that they do not “live by faith.” What we do instead is, we visit there from time to time. Yes, we live by faith on occasion, but we never dwell there, nor do we take up residency there. And though we see things that causes us to believe that anything is possible with God many times over, we fail to constantly maintain that belief, that level of faith that the scriptures say, “we should live by.” Because we fail to live there, to take residency, we tend to be “carnally minded,” which the scripture says is “death” (Romans 8:6). Carnally mindedness is being focused on the things of this world from a human emotional standpoint. Carnally minded people fail to focus on God, fail to focus on his word, and fail to focus on the things of God.
“Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened” (Romans 1:21 AMPC).
