Our Spiritual Life Support System

My Utmost For His Highest

 

"The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit . . . "—Romans 8:16

 

"[…]  We are inclined to mistake the simplicity that comes from our natural commonsense decisions for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, and to the work of redemption, never to our reason. If we are trying to make Him witness to our reason, it is no wonder that we are in darkness and uncertainty. Throw it all overboard, trust in Him, and He will give you the witness of the Spirit." CHAMBERS

 

Dr. Henry Blackaby, in Experiencing God, said that God speaks to us by His Spirit, through prayer, the Word, circumstances and other Believers.  Jesus said that He was sending a helper to teach us (John 14:26), guide us (Romans 8:14), to pray for us (Romans 8:26) and to convict the world of sin (John 16:8).  The Bible cautions us to not quench the Spirit.  In other words, don’t resist the Spirit and do what we think is best instead.  Dr Blackaby also said that knowing it is God speaking to us is never the problem.  Doing what God says to do, obedience, that is the problem.

 

Each of us is sealed by the Spirit at the moment of our rebirth (2 Corinthians 1:22, Ephesians 1:13).  Our bodies are the temple of the Spirit.  (1 Corinthians 3:16) He is with us 24x7.  I am sitting here this morning, glancing out of the window now and again.  I see the dark shape of palm trees, mountains, the hint of blue in the ocean,   and a red band on the horizon blending into a dark blue sky.  The sun is coming up.  Just like it does every morning.  It is beautiful.  By why is this happening?  I know the earth rotates about itself and about the sun .. but what makes it do that?  Why would it do that?  Because God has set it all in place.  He makes it work …. He keeps it working.

 

And so it is with His Spirit.  God put His Spirit in us, because it is necessary for us to live this new life of ours.  The Spirit is our life support.  Keep your heart clean from sin and listen for God to speak to you.  He knows what is best .. how could we possible think we know better than the creator of the universe?  He could ask us just as He asked Job, ‘Where were you when I set all of this in place?”  Remember who you are and who He is.  And guess what, He loves you with an everlasting love. Oh , here comes the sun! ELGIN

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)