The Inward Man

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. - 2 Corinthians 4:16

    Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

    Time, toil, and stress take their toll on this man of flesh; but the new man created in Christ Jesus is forever young; and these trials and vanities of earth do but turn that inward man to the fountain of life and love, Christ Jesus, and he grows stronger day by day. The man of flesh has his work to do, his duties to fulfill, his place and people to serve until the Lord buries him. But the inward man is not of this world, even as Christ is not of this world; his affection (mind) is on things above, not on things of the earth; and in a sense he is already dead and his life is Christ and his kingdom. Do not expect the natural person (friend or family) to understand the inward man nor the inward man's “magnificent obsession,” Christ Jesus! nor the inward man's fading interest in the things of the earth. “He that is of God heareth us;” he that is not of God has neither eye to see, ear to hear, nor heart to understand the things God has prepared in Christ—things all inward men have seen and heard and who have a desire to depart here and enter there.