1Peter 1:14 (NIV)
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
Ephesians 5:18 (NIV)
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit…
“God’s working and my working need not be in competition but harmony. I work because he works… It is God’s fight and yet it is my fight. And the more it is his, the more truly it is mine.” [John White, The Fight, 192]
We have been set free as God’s children to decide how we will receive/live in God’s holiness. While we lived without holiness before Christ and were inundated with only desires outside of God, we can now choose in Christ what we’re impacted by. We can get drunk and indulge unnecessarily in wrong things, or we can be filled with the Spirit. Instead of conforming to unholy desires or waiting for God to disrupt/interrupt wrong ways in our lives, we can actively seek to be filled with the Spirit – to have his empowering and holiness fill our hearts.
Prayer: God, help me to turn from the temptation to do things my way and instead fill my heart with conviction to listen and obey your leading. Grant me a holy obsession to work and fight with you more and more. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.
Let’s worship to “Holy Overshadowing” (click here) by Graham Kendrick.
-JH