Have had a brilliant day on Form [check out the website and I cannot rate this course enough whatever your age!] http://www.form-uk.org/ We had some brilliant teaching on the Holy Spirit. Two major things went on for me today.
Firstly I had one of those moments when you have a choice - whether to go with the tiny inkling from the Holy Spirit or go and have a cup of tea. Many times I probably do the the latter [for reasons like 'oh don't be so super spiritual' or 'it's probably just me' or 'stop striving'. All these thoughts are from enemy number one btw]. However praise the Lord today I chose to go with the tiny inkling and God worked life changingly like I have never seen him work before. I am stunned at how I must miss what God is doing by essentially shunning the spirit - it's not through major acts of disobedience, more usually by passivity. Passivity is an enemy 'on fire but not totally fully immersed/surrendered yet' Christians must defeat. We have to be attentive to the still small voice. We have to go with things, we must risk looking foolish and getting it wrong. The result and reward of obedience so unbelievably outweighs the risk or the results of looking foolish. It can be a matter of life and death sometimes and obedience in all things of the spirit is the cost we must pay if we are to truly and increasingly broker heaven on earth. man I have a lot to learn.
Secondly, I was reminded again that Jesus came to show us the father - yes all agree. But he also came to show us what the potential for true Christian living is. He came to show us what a person totally laid down, fully immersed can see released - because Jesus emptied himself of his default power when he walked the earth:
He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion. [Phillipians 2:5-8 The Message]
Is being like Jesus truly our vision? Or have we already resolved in our hearts and minds that it is impossible?
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