Sometimes it seems all we can ask is:
Seems that question has been asked before--
and the answer has been provided as well.
"The unspiritual self, by nature,
can’t
receive the gifts of God’s Spirit.
There’s no
capacity for them.
They seem
like so much silliness.
Spirit can
be known only by spirit—
God’s
Spirit and ours in open communion.
Spiritually
alive, we have access
to
everything God’s Spirit is doing.
Isaiah’s
question, 'Is there anyone
who knows
what God is doing?'
has been
answered:
Christ
knows, and we have His Spirit,
we have the
mind of Christ."
1 Cor
2:14-16, The Message
There are
seasons when God pulls up
things that
have been familiar
and
comfortable to us.
They can be
good things or
not so good
things, but we know
how to do
life with them.
He comes
along and kicks up a little
dust.
We look
around and find that
things are
not the way they were.
Many of us
are in a season where
things
which were life to us
have been
torn down.
As
uncomfortable as it is,
this is a
season in which
things are
being made new.
And we
can't "keep on keeping on"
because
some of the things
are no
longer there to keep on with.
It is a
season where we must
intentionally
step out of routine,
refusing to
move on to the next thing.
We must sit
down and listen.
The
question is no longer:
"Is
there anyone around who knows
what God is
doing?"
The
question is now:
"God,
would You tell me
what You
are doing?"
Because
Christ knows and
we have the
mind of Christ.
The Holy
Spirit came that
we would
have His Spirit alive in us.
In this
tear down season, He is tearing down
false ideas
and false images that
keep us
unspiritual and immature.
Some of
these may have been
acceptable
in one season, but
He is
asking us to know Him more.
Some ideas
and images were built
on
foundations of fear and world systems
that did
not look or sound like the One
who came to
reveal our Father.
He wants us
to walk in His fullness,
incarnating
His image so that we can
re-present
Him to a world that has
for too
long heard false ideas
and seen
false images.
In this
ever paradoxical Kingdom,
we must go
up to go deep.
We have to
plunge the depths of silence
that we
might hear deep calling to deep.
"Spirit
can be known only by spirit—
God’s
Spirit and ours in open communion.
Spiritually
alive, we have access
to
everything God’s Spirit is doing."
Inner
rivers of grace flow and
only the
quiet heart can hear them
and be
refreshed in them.
Most times,
I would rather God tell me
to run up
an obstacle-strewn mountain
than sit
quietly and do nothing.
I have to train
my ears to listen
for a sound
rather than a word.
A word can
drive me;
a sound can
settle me.
A time for
building up will come
with words
that give direction and purpose.
At this
time, however, I am intent on
listening
for the sound of silence.
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