Hmm...good question. Here are my thoughts on the subject.

First of all, I believe the concept of free will only applies to the non-believer. Once an individual commits his or her heart to Christ, free will is relinquished. From that moment forward, we are bought with a price.

So if you accept the above as a basic premise, then I infer from your comments that you are trying to define the personal issue of believers following their own will (but not their "free" will) versus compliance with the will of the Holy Spirit. And to that extent, I agree with you. If we give in to the flesh, we commit sin. If we let the Holy Spirit control us, we have victory.

There are several passages of Scripture that tell us to walk in the Spirit and thus not fulfill the desires of the flesh. This means we are to be led BY the Spirit as well as live IN the Spirit. In other words, we are to walk one step at a time, controlled by the Spirit of God. Spiritual victory isn't a once-for-all-time thing. Rather, it is a moment-by-moment experience that depends entirely on the power and help that comes from the Holy Spirit.

Here's an illustration. In the physical realm, the first step we took as little children was a wonderful thing, both for ourselves and for our parents. But we don't go back to that first tentative step for our continued mobility. We've been walking ever since. Likewise in a spiritual sense, after our initial step toward Christ, we keep walking in the Spirit day by day.

So what should be our attitude toward sin in our lives? Some Christians talk about constantly trying to suppress it by exerting their own wills. But I believe that's folly. It requires a far different approach. We know we can't eradicate the fallen nature within us, and we can't find victory by constantly struggling against sin on our own. It is only as we trust the Holy Spirit to provide continual "conteraction" that we are able to walk victoriously.

Here's another illustration of what I'm talking about. Imagine a dark room. How do we get rid of the darkness? Can we eradicate it once and for all? Nope. Are we able to moan and struggle in the darkness to see whether we can drive the darkness away? Wrong again. Instead, what we need to do is turn on the light. The light will counteract the darkness. As long as we keep the light on, the darkness is gone. The moment we turn the light off, the darkness is there again. Relating this principle to our spiritual environment, the Lord told us His Word gives light. In Him there is no darkness. But we must walk in the light as He is in the light. And the only way to achieve that is through the Holy Spirit.

Make sense? Anyway, those are my thoughts, for whatever they're worth.

No, the Holy Spirit doesn't micromanage us, although as believers, we are "controlled" by the Spirit. (See Romans 8:9-11.) We are supposed to walk after the Spirit. To walk in such way is not a work but a method of life for the believer. It means continuously walking under the control of God's Spirit. It is the whole round of our activity brought into the orbit of the Holy Spirit around our lives.

This isn't mere passivity on our part. It's not a matter of our saying, "Okay, if the Holy Spirit is going to do it all, then I'm not going to do anything about it myself." Rather, we must cooperate fully with the Spirit. The power of sin has been broken such that "sin shall not have dominion over you" (Romans 6:14). God gives us grace to overcome the flesh nature and live victoriously. But it requires a conscious action on our part.

One of the faults of logic that a lot of Christians make is that we live in a binary world -- it's either good or evil, darkness or light, God's way or Satan's way. But there is a third great power in this world besides God and Satan. It's ourselves. Some of the choices that we as humans make in our lives are neither God's way nor Satan's way. They are our own.

I think I'm beginning to understand where you're going with this. It may have to do with spiritual maturity. Using our free wills, we decide whether to follow Jesus or follow our own way which, by default, is Satan's way. We're like seeds of a plant. If we wish the plant to grow, we must take the seed and put it in the right kind of soil where there is moisture and where the sun can reach it. Planted in this way, the seed will grow and develop. In a similar fashion, God places the believer in the environment of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, if we walk after the Spirit (Gal. 5:16), we will grow to spiritual maturity. It is this walking after the Spirit that puts us into the environment where He can take control of our lives and bring us to a state of spiritual maturity where we glorify Christ. But if we choose to escape from the moisture and the light (i.e., the Holy Spirit), we never grow. We are still believers, but we never mature.

So in summary, the Holy Spirit doesn't micromanage us. Rather, the Spirit "controls" us as we mature. But if we elect to divert our way from the way of the Spirit, the Spirit loses control and we don't mature. Such decision results in short-circuiting God's intent for our lives.

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