Today has been one of those days... Not a great day, not a horrible day, but a day when everything seems to be just a little off, including my attitude. I just haven't been motivated to do much, I feel pretty... blahhh. When I get like this I start questioning my faith and my worth in the kingdom. When I say my faith, I don't mean whether or not I have faith, but I mean the strength of my faith. I get behind this keyboard every day and write this or that, but am I living and believing what I'm writing, or is it just empty words?
I certainly believe every word that is written in the word of God and I believe that I've been urged by the Holy Spirit to write every day, so the part about believing what I'm writing is a no brainer. Yes. The part about living what I'm writing, well, I definitely have a lot of room for improvement. I want so badly to be a stronger servant of Jesus. I get all of these (I think great) ideas of things to do to further His kingdom and to spread the gospel and then I systematically come up with excuses not to go through with them. So, if I (if it's me, and not the Holy Spirit) come up with all of these "great" ideas and do nothing about them, it makes me pretty useless for the kingdom. If it's the Holy Spirit that's giving me these ideas and I'm not acting on them, well, that's a whole lot worse because then I'm quenching the Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit.
That's a pretty short verse, but it speaks volumes! If I am quenching the Spirit, (I think) He will eventually stop speaking to me. We are all to listen to the direction of the Holy Spirit. Now, the question is; how do I know when it's the Holy Spirit and not my own mind, or worse? After I find out it's Him, how do I muster up the courage to do what He tells me to do?
Dear God, please help me to know, without a doubt when You are speaking to me through the Holy Spirit. Please give me the courage and the strength to act upon that command and not quench the Spirit. In Jesus awesome name, AMEN.
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