What
if God really is at work in every moment, in every place? What if your job is just to jump into the
river? What if your job is to figure
out, from one moment to the next, how to stay in the flow? How to keep yourself aware and submitted to
God’s Spirit so that rivers of living water flow through your belly, through
the core of your being?
The
apostle Paul gives a simple command, which in a sense is all we need to do: “Do
not quench the Spirit.” The Spirit is
already at work in you. Jesus says if
you have come to Him, if you are a follower of His, the Spirit is there. He is bigger than you; He is stronger than
you; He is more patient with your failures and your gaps and your inadequacies
and your pretending than you are. He is
committed to helping you 24/7/365. So
Paul says, in a sense, your only job is not getting in His way. Just don’t
quench the Spirit.
-- John Ortberg in The
Me I Want to Be
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