When God, by His Spirit through His Word, gives you a clear vision of His will, you must “walk in the light” of that vision ( 1 John 1:7 ). Even though your mind and soul may be thrilled by it, if you don’t “walk in the light” of it you will sink to a level of bondage never envisioned by our Lord. Mentally disobeying the “heavenly vision” ( Acts 26:19 ) will make you a slave to ideas and views that are completely foreign to Jesus Christ. Don’t look at someone else and say, “Well, if he can have those views and prosper, why can’t I?” You have to “walk in the light” of the vision that has been given to you. Don’t compare yourself with others or judge them— that is between God and them. When you find that one of your favorite and strongly held views clashes with the “heavenly vision,” do not begin to debate it. If you do, a sense of property and personal right will emerge in you— things on which Jesus placed no value. He was against these things as being the root of everything foreign to Himself— “. . . for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses” ( Luke 12:15  ). If we don’t see and understand this, it is because we are ignoring the underlying principles of our Lord’s teaching.

If and when we are connected to the Spirit of God, we are not only attuned to the leading of the Spirit of God we are closely aligned with Jesus. Connected, we “know” what God wants from us as we gladly and eagerly move off in that direction. In fact, we are even strong enough “in the Lord” to wait for Him to reveal His plan for and to us, a step at time. JDV

When we are not connected…….

Our tendency is to lie back and bask in the memory of the wonderful experience we had when God revealed His will to us. But if a New Testament standard is revealed to us by the light of God, and we don’t try to measure up, or even feel inclined to do so, then we begin to backslide.

And it seems we will always “backslide” if we rely on our own strength, because when we are “connected” to God we realize we do not have the capacity to “measure up”. We can only measure up when we let Jesus live through us.  JDV

When we are not connected directly to the Spirit of God in an area of our lives……

It means your (our) conscience does not respond to the truth. You (we) can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you (us) as one who either continues on with even more devotion as a disciple of Jesus Christ, or as one who turns to go back as a deserter.

We have all been both; discipile and deserter, and often we wonder if we can ever make the courageous decision when it truly counts. Yes we can, when we understand that the Spirit of God that lives in us can and will make the right choice on our behalf (just as Jesus did on the cross) when we simply give up (surrender) ourselves and allow the Spirit of God to provide all we need.  We may feel uncomfortable,  and the experience may seem strange, but when we are truly connected, we simply know we are right where Jesus wants us to be…..As the song says…JDV

And this may not be the road I would choose for me
but it still feels right somehow