Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Led by the Spirit of God

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Being LED by the Spirit of God.
Being a son of God.

How can we be led by the Spirit of God?

We want to be sons and daughters of God, don't we? If this is what we desire then we must be led by the Spirit of God.

Once more this is putting GOD first in all things.
Putting GOD'S WAYS first in all things.
We are not ignorant of God's way- it is the way of LOVE. 
The way of LOVE is God's way- SELFLESSNESS, putting others and GOD first in ALL things, not just in things we choose.  We cannot be picky about love. We have to love equally, not picking and choosing when we should be loving and when we shouldn't. 

When we fail to love we NEED to ask for forgiveness.

Remember this verse--

Jas_4:17  To him therefore who knoweth to do good and doth it not, to him it is sin.

This is in ALL things, not just being exceptionally good.  This is knowing we should let a person older than us go ahead of us when we simultaneously come to a check out line. This is knowing we should stop and let the person trying to get out into traffic, out. This is holding the door for someone. This is getting a drink of water for someone. This is picking up a piece of trash even if you haven't a clue who put it there. This is holding your tongue when you want to lash out. This is being exhausted and still fixing dinner. This is so much more than doing good by the grand gestures of giving money to a worthy cause, helping a homeless person, working in a soup kitchen. ALL things matter.  And we are to do good IN ALL THINGS because if we don't we are accountable for not doing good, for not loving and living as the SPIRIT would lead us to in Jesus Christ our LORD.

Being led by the SPIRIT of God is NOT waiting around for an apparition of sorts to appear and tell you what to do. Being led by the SPIRIT of God is NOT haphazardly flipping to a Bible verse and allowing that to guide us. Being led by the SPIRIT of God is NOT feeling happy and attributing that to the Spirit. If we allow ourselves to get caught up in gauging our being led by the SPIRIT by our emotions then we are going to feel completely lost when we aren't feeling overwhelming happy, but perhaps really sad. Feelings, emotions have their place but they cannot take the place of our ability to reason, our ability to let our FAITH work knowing that regardless of what we feel that GOD is LOVE in all things!

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Spirit of bondage.

The spirit of slavery.

We do NOT receive the spirit of slavery which causes fear- fear of eternal death. We do NOT receive the spirit of slavery to sin, bound by sin to die unforgiven, unredeemed, without any hope at all. We RECEIVE the SPIRIT of ADOPTION!  Through our SAVIOR we are given HOPE! That HOPE is the hope of forgiveness and through that forgiveness a pardon for all our sins, a cleansing from our unrighteousness by HIS righteousness, and through HIM eternal LIFE. 

We can cry out ABBA - FATHER! Adoring our Heavenly Father because He has given us this hope, this amazing LOVE surpassing all other love we might think we know.

Our HOPE is in CHRIST!

We must live in this HOPE, this ETERNAL HOPE. We are ADOPTED by a LOVING GOD, a LOVING FATHER who welcomes us with open arms.

Being led by the SPIRIT we are the sons of GOD, receiving the SPIRIT of ADOPTION! 

Our God does not want us enslaved! Our God wants us adopted!

How amazing is the love of our Heavenly Father! How truly amazing, beyond anything we can imagine!

We must hope, we must choose, we must yield all through the power of the Holy Spirit!

All through LOVE HIS LOVE!


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