Most
people have no idea how electricity, the weather, the human body or the
universe works, but we believe these things nonetheless. We do not have to
understand God’s mysteries to believe them either. God’s Kingdom is full of
mysteries, which God asks us to fully embrace, even if we do not actually
understanding how they work. For instance, Christ dwells in us by His Spirit,
works through us, and we abide in Him. We believe this by faith.
We
did not acquire our talents, skills, resources and energy by our human efforts.
God gave them to us. He does not want us to use them for Him. We get in His way
when we try to work for God on our own. God wants to use these assets through
us. He wants us to realize that we are actually dead, and we are hidden with
Christ in God (Colossians
3:3). We have no
human ability to accomplish anything for God. We simply need to stop our human
efforts, enter His rest (Hebrews 4:10), and allow Him to use our body, soul and spirit for His glory.
We
do not need to understand this in order to follow God’s directions. We simply
surrender to His will each day and go where the Spirit leads us. We work and
bless others wherever He directs us. We come to know Christ more intimately
with each moment we spend in fellowship with Him. He already prepared works
that He wants to accomplish through us (Ephesians 2:8-10). We just need to get out of God’s way and give
Him full reign with our life.
We
do not need any program to witness or to help other people, because Christ will
work instead of us. He wants to use our spirit, body and soul – our mind,
choices and emotions – to accomplish His will in our world. We simply abide in
Christ as He dwells in us. We cease from our human efforts and allow Christ to
accomplish His will through us. We will say and do what the Spirit directs, and
we will be amazed at all He accomplishes by the end of our day.
Prayer:
Father
God, fill us through all of our being with all of Your fullness (Ephesians 3:16-19). We submit to Your Spirit,
unreservedly cling to Christ and refuse to rely on our own understanding any
longer. We believe that Christ will do His work through the power of Your
Spirit instead of us. We do not want to hinder You by our need to understand or
to control our activities. We totally surrender to Your will and direction
moment by moment.
Thought
for the Day:
The
sap of God’s Spirit flows through us and bears fruit, sometimes in spite of us!