Walk With Holy Spirit

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Romans 5:20-21 NET

Amazing grace! The gift of His grace is not an impersonal thing. God’s grace comes to us no more and no less than Jesus Christ comes to us. In the Gospel we are not given a thing; we are given a person.  Whoa. 

Not only are holiness and sinfulness mutually exclusive, but Christ, being perfectly holy, knows and feels the horror and weight of sin more deeply than any of us could fathom,—just as the purer a man’s heart, the more horrified he is at the thought of his neighbors being robbed or abused While the more corrupt one’s heart is, the less one is affected by the evils all around. 

Carry this train of thought a little further. Just as the closer we walk with Holy Spirit, the more horrified we are at the world’s evil, so we are also naturally drawn out to help and relieve and protect and comfort, others, whereas a corrupt heart sits still, indifferent to pain and suffering. 

Without abiding in Jesus we can do nothing. Chase Him. This means spending daily chunks of time in His presence and ongoing prayer with Him. Our responsibility is to position ourselves where Jesus can flood us with mercy. We start with desperation. Humbled by His selfless love, surrendered to the will of God. 

There must be an inner cry for help, with our eyes on the horizon, in our own lane, chasing Jesus on the highway ahead with the realization that we need certain things pruned out of our lives and the things of God grafted in. 

This desperation for calm, solid, joy, rooted joy, helps us to be disciplined, and when we delight in Jesus—when He is all that thrills and fuels us—we have the means to represent Him well among all the peoples of the earth.