John 8:23

Then Jesus tells them outright, “You are from below, while I am from above. In other words, you are from this world, while I am definitely not.” John 8:23 EFP 
  
There you have it! In a nutshell that is my problem. When speaking to these people who just don’t get it, he finally spells out their conundrum—as he does to me today: I don’t get it because Jesus and I are on two different planes of existence. He is other-worldly. I am a prisoner of this world. He is heavenly. I am earthbound. He is Spirit-filled. My flesh is definitely interested is winning the battle for my life. He is the Word Incarnate! I am not. Period.

As long as I am earth-bound, carnal, and worldly I will never get it. Jesus has been trying all my life to get me to commit to living on a different plane of existence, that is, a Spirit-filled one. I will always fail to grasp the truths he so much wants me to internalize as long as I live in a world dominated by the perishable. I will fall short, fail miserably, and flail aimlessly in my attempts to grow and mature in Christ while living a life dominated by things that are foreign to the Kingdom into which God calls me. I want to enter that realm to which Christ calls me. There is only one Door. There is only one Way. There is only one Truth. He is a person to be known, not a concept to be memorized. He is life itself, not merely a tenet of my faith. “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (Romans 8:24, 25)