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It seems to me that many of us (umm me too I have to admit) allow God’s plan for the future to often excuse us from faithful and sacrificial living now. We permit HIS grace and plan to create a safe zone, where we can sit around and have “spiritual” conversations about what God “might” have planned for our lives. Thinking, questioning, and talking take the place of letting the Spirit affect our immediate actions in a radical way. By the way when this describes the church and how it functions…the rest of the world is right to criticize us as hypocrites who do and contribute little to the community it resides in. God wants to see his children stake everything on his power and presence in their lives….and this implies a church that takes risks, is active and a church that “sees a need…meets a need“.

Scripture doesn’t lay out for us a “balanced life with a little bit of God added in” as an ideal to emulate. What I do see today are people who have, in a sense, asked HIM to join them on their life journey, to follow them wherever they feel they should go, rather than following him as we are commanded. The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives (HE is not an “IN-APP Purchase) and keep on as we did before. The Spirit who raised Christ from the dead is not someone we can just call on when we want a little extra power in our lives. Jesus Christ did not die in order to follow us. He died and rose again so that we could forget everything else and follow him to the cross, to true life.

“The Sermon on the Mount … is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having his unhindered way with us.” Oswald Chambers (Scottish minister, devotional writer)

Does the Holy Spirit have HIS unhindered way in your life? If HE doesn’t, it’s time for us to let go of those reigns and hand them over to HIM.

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