Section 12
for we have the option of walking according to the spirit. When we do this, we enjoy all the riches of Christ.
We daily need to practice having our being according to the spirit. We need to apply this in our talking, in our thinking, and in everything we do. For example, suppose a young one is won dering whether he can participate in a certain kind of athletic activity. My advice to him would be that if he can participate in that athletic ac tivity according to the spirit, then he should go ahead and do so. As Christians, we should not de cide matters according to right or wrong; rather, we should decide them according to the spirit.
The Spirit who is mingled with our spirit and according to whom we may have our very being is the wonderful Spirit of the Triune God. Such a Spirit, the realization and application of the Tri une God, is now mingled with our spirit. In Ro mans 8 it is no longer a matter of simply the divine Spirit nor of just the human spirit, but it is a mat ter of the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit. Hallelujah for this marvelous mingling!
THE MINGLED SPIRIT AND THE BUILDING UP OF THE CHURCH
But although we have such a wonderful