Constants You Can Count On #3

I started this series in the early part of last year and never got around to fininshing the list. Its a new year, but our God remains faithful and unchanging, so these constants being grounded in the faith and in God remain unchanging as well.

3. The Holy Spirit will still move.

2 Peter 1:21
New King James Version (NKJV)for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.2 Peter 1:20-21 (in Context) 2 Peter 1 (Whole Chapter)
New Living Translation (NLT) or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God.2 Peter 1:20-21 (in Context) 2 Peter 1 (Whole Chapter)

These verses talk about prophecy and it being spoken as the prophets are being moved by the Holy Spirit and in all cases this is very true. I think all prophecy should be given as directed by the Holy Spirit. But in I don’t believe the Holy Spirit is just going to move in the instances of prophecy. I think the Holy Spirit moves us and in us in various ways. Sometimes it is obvious as is the case of prophecy and wonders like healing, other times it is more subtle like a quiet tugging at the heart to give when we have the ability to, or to help out a friend who needs help, sometimes it is simply just stepping out in faith when we don’t feel like it. The Holy Spirit is constantly moving around us and He will move in us and through us if we will let Him. It is not always in a big and extraordinary way. Sometimes it is the still small whisper we hear compelling us to do something. But in either case big or small we can be assured that the Holy Spirit is still indeed moving.

Committed to...

There is so much in life that we are committed to: our families, our friends, our jobs, our churches, and probably so much more. I think if we took some time to look at where we are spending our time as individuals and at the people we are spending time with that we could truly see the way the world sees us. Do we look any different from the world we live in? Do the people we spend our time with help to edify and exhort us and the people we come in contact with? Do we help anyone other than ourselves when we are out in the world? Do we make the world a better a place as we go through it day to day or do we simply get through the day without affecting it at all? I think we all need to take some time to look at ourselves through the eyes of people we do not associate with to see how we truly look to the world. I think what we do speaks a lot louder for us that anything we could ever say. These questions have bee beating loud in my heart over the last few days and I figured I would share them with anyone who still reads this. Here is to 2009 and looking exactly the way we want to and having our words match our actions.

Be Blessed,
Mike