<p>5:25 <i>If we live by the Spirit</i>- The gift of the Spirit is not an overpowering force which forces us to obedience. We must allow it to work; clearly the Galatians had turned away from it, towards justification by their own strength.</p><p><i>Let us also walk in step with the Spirit</i>- An allusion to Ezekiel&rsquo;s vision of the wheels of the cherubim on earth being in step with the Angel-cherubim above them. Our spirit bears witness with God&rsquo;s Spirit- we know that our way of life is in harmony with Him, our spirit is His, and thereby we know that we are His children and united with the eternal life and now eternal spirit of His Son (Rom. 8:16). The way of life we live in Christ is an eternal life, an eternal spirit; in this sense we are living the eternal life, the life we will eternally live. This is how crucially important it is to be living the truth as a way of life. Go through your life and see how you can construct this ambience within it.</p>