Fulfilling Your purpose #2 – the Quest for Energy
Last time, we saw inertia is a great hindrance to effective Christianity! Inertia takes different forms, but ends the same: regret! It’s a serious obstacle! What is needed to ‘get us off the dive’ and put us on a path to victory again?
What is needed to overcome this terrible condition?
What is needed is ENERGY. We must be energized. Specifically Holy Spirit energy in the Christian life is an absolute requirement to overcome inertia!
Imagine owning a lamborghini – only pushing it to the grocery store and everywhere else. And each day going through the same routine, passing filling stations along the way, but pushing in your own strength. Ridiculous!
It takes ENERGY to live as a witness for Christ! We’ve GOT to have it! So how do we get it? Where do we get it? David said, “My help comes from the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth.” Isaiah said (40:31) “They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint.”
So what does this look like? For me, it begins in the morning, usually after coffee with my wife. I open my Bible and read a chapter or more -sometimes focusing on a single verse or two; it’s a relationship that continues in prayer throughout the day, talking to God; being open to hear and obeying the whisper of the Holy Spirit.
As in driving, your hands are on the wheel and there are constant course corrections being made; so it is with life in the Spirit. There is gratitude, correction, inspiration, enjoyment, learning and blessing going on. Rom 14:17: “For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
It may look different for each of us, but the bottom line for every believer is a quest beginning with the prayer, “Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit.”
If you’ve experienced “better days” in the past, it doesn’t have to be like that anymore! It’s time to get re-fueled. Spend some ‘on purpose’ time with God alone. Ask Him to recharge your batteries. Tell Him you can’t do life in your own strength and pray, “Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit.” iOi
