Do you know
when the Holy Spirit is leading you? How
can you discern the differences between your own ideas, feelings of guilt and
the Holy Spirit? When are you confident
that you have done what the Lord has asked of you and not just followed your
own way?
It’s not
the easiest lesson to learn. It has
taken me years to recognize the Holy Spirit; and I’m just now somewhat
confident. I don’t always know for sure
that it is the Holy Spirit, and I often question myself. When I sense Him
asking something of me, I think it might be God; but I never know for sure
until I do it. A lot of times it just
comes down to a feeling of supernatural peace after I do something, which is
irrational from my human perspective.
1
Corinthians 2:14 says: The
person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit
of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they
are discerned only through the Spirit.
I often consider something the Holy Spirit might ask of me as foolish,
yet that is the time I’ve learned to obey the most. The Spirit of God goes against my
self-will. My sinful spirit naturally
considers that the things of God are foolish.
I don’t want to be kind to my enemy.
I don’t want to keep inviting the neighbor who has shown strong signs of
rejection over for a fourth or fifth time.
I don’t want to make the effort to give a cup of water in Jesus’
name. What good is a cup of water
anyway? You get the picture.
What
is life about if we do not pay attention to the Holy Spirit? What is the purpose of life if we do not
attempt to get better at speaking and understanding the language of the Holy
Spirit? When we don’t listen to the Holy
Spirit we become self-indulgent, distracted, small minded, selfish people. The Holy Spirit knows how to show us the best
things in life. When I am listening to
the Holy Spirit, He helps me notice things I have never seen before. I learn to really see the world and smell the
air, taking in the shaft of light as a touch from heaven.
In
addition to getting more out of each and every ordinary day, I also get to see
how much better I can be than who I am.
I absolutely get ideas and again an understanding of myself and others. I can explain spiritual concepts. I have the strength, power and wisdom to do
what is impossible for me.
Spiritual
maturity is becoming more and more confident of when it is the Holy
Spirit. The great thing is that the Holy
Spirit is the one to teach you how to sense His guidance and obey Him. He will show you how to hear Him; you just
need to want to hear and obey what He has to say.
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