Prayerful Inner-Searching

January 9th, 2013 by Dave Leave a reply »

May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless . . . —1 Thessalonians 5:23

“Your whole spirit . . . .” The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139 . The psalmist implies— “O Lord, You are the God of the early mornings, the God of the late nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea. But, my God, my soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. You who are the God of all these, be my God. I cannot reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover, dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me.”

Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought processes far beyond where we can go? “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have mercy on us. The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he is not even conscious of it. But the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the heights and depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God with the miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit, soul, and body can be preserved in pure uprightness until the coming of Jesus-no longer condemned in God’s sight.

We should more frequently allow our minds to meditate on these great, massive truths of God.

Journal DJR
Good Morning Lord,
Oswald started today with,

The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach.”

Then Psalm 139 shows the depth at which you can know us and protect us. Depths that we cannot even imagine. The neuroscientists are just beginning to scratch the surface of the places in our brains that address the motives behind our actions and feelings. Although some of them feel smug that they have figured out some of why we do the things we do, it is only perhaps a teaspoonful compared to a swimming pool’s worth of complexity that your Holy Spirit navigates easily. Our problems and also our brilliance originate in those recesses of our soul and spirit which we cannot access. Of course we try with self help programs and studies of Psychology and Neuroscience. But to little avail. Those who’ve studied the most and learned the most seem no happier than the rest of us … maybe even less.
So it is comforting that you can take care of all that behind the scenes stuff in the areas of the brain and soul and spirit that we cannot access. So we learn once again that our job is just to stay connected and let you do your work. Thank you for loving us so much. Help us today to walk in the blessings that you have provided.

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