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Morning Meds with Izzy Herriette & Co - Thursday - APR 14, 2011 -
I've been pondering, as of late, the "walk in the Spirit"!
In all of my meditations surrounding this, I've had to truly focus in on and dig deep, to ask the LORD, "Am I truly walking with YOU? Am I hearing You, LORD? Am I following in the steps that You have prepared and ordained for me each day?"
2 Corinthians 13:5 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not yourselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
We are told plainly in scripture, of the "fruits" of the Spirit, which I'm sure most of us are very aware of and perhaps, even a little too familiar with:
Galatians 5:22,23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance ...
All excuses aside we truly are able to walk out our lives in these "fruits" listed.
I guess this morning, in this particular instance, God is appealing to a more "intimate" searching.
Psalm 139:23,24 - Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
It would seem to me that the LORD is calling, wooing even, to learn whether or not we are hearing his voice and His instructions, according to the Spirit of God within us. Are we listening? Are we really involved in that life that He desires to lead us into?
Here are the verses that spoke to me - in all of this probing of mine - with Him:
John 10:37,38 - (Jesus speaking to his disciples before the crucifixion) - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him.
All through my years of walking with the Holy Spirit, I have been judged, over and over again. Which is not all bad. Actually it is a good thing. People who questioned the authenticity of my faith, then went on to judge the works of Jesus/the Father, in my life. Many who have had doubts, were won over by the works of God, displayed in my life.
I desire, more than anything else in this life, that I am always allowing Him to display Himself through me - His authenticity. We cannot accomplish this, apart from living in that intimate place with Him, where His is the only voice we will follow after!
John 10:4,5 - (Jesus speaking) - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him; for they know not the voice of strangers.
I find it worthy to "note" that Jesus himself, speaks of this "hearing" just prior to the statement he made of the works of the Father in his own life and ministry.
John 12:49,50 - For I have not spoken of my self; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting, whatsoever I speak therefore even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
John 14: 10,11 - Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do because I go to the Father.
Where is the evidence of "Christ in you the hope of glory"? Is your life emulating much outward truth, that Christ dwells in you richly? I pray so, today, for you as well as for myself, that we see a mighty increase of this in our lives; especially for "this day and hour" that we find ourselves living in, right now! Amen.
Selah - (Hebrew - pause and calmly think on that.)
Izzy Herriette & Co/Ginger Renken
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