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- Are you aware of where your
loyalties are? Have you decided?
Actually we make choices that begin
when we are little, and the choices take directions. From the
outside of someone's life, it is pretty easy to see where a person's
allegiance is.
As a Blood-bought believer, my
loyalty must be to the One Who bought me, and no one and nothing
else. The living out of that decision is supernatural, and I
must have the indwelling Holy Spirit, or I will crash and burn.
In this age when there is so much
written and recorded about the Holy Spirit, the Church seems
to know and experience less than it ever did. Writhing around
barking like a dog may be from some spirit, but it is definitely
not from the Holy Spirit. Speaking in other tongues may
or may not be from the Holy Spirit. I have witnessed this when
it was definitely from the Lord, and I have more often witnessed
it when it was not.
When the rubber meets the road
in the nitty gritty bothersome things of life, only the personal
ministry of the Holy Spirit of God empowers the Christian to
choose God's way instead of his. Those are the times when loyalty
must turn us away from personal preference and the need to fulfill
the flesh so that we can choose the thing that pleases God.
That is the real issue, isn't
it? Am I willing to spend the days of my life pleasing God instead
of myself?
Lord, please so fill me with the
Spirit that I can be easily moved by you. I want to be a soldier
in the army of the King, and leave behind the entanglement of
the affairs of every day life. I plead to be transformed into
your likeness.
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