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What I’m talking about is seeking and finding Spiritual Summer in the Son.
That’s “S-o-n” not “s-u-n.” The warmth that only an invigorated faith can give.
What I am talking about is a confidence in God that grows because you exercise that confidence on a regular basis. An unwavering trust.
If you trust a person you are prone to take their advice. The same is true with the Lord; trust the words of better living wisdom in the Old and New Testament, and live by them.
Proverbs 3:5-6 puts it clearly enough, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Let’s put it this way, “If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be sufficient evidence to convict you?”
Pass this test and heaven becomes not just a place you will go to one day, rather some of that heavenly peace and prosperity will now come to you here on mother earth.
My first pastorate was a rural community in Virginia. When I arrived there in 1954, I learned that the area had actually only had electricity for six years. Because I was a city boy, it seemed incredible that they had only enjoyed this modern convenience since 1948.
However, I was told a story that seemed even more incredible, but the teller of the story assured me it was true.
A woman had had electricity installed in her house at great expense but the power company noticed that her meter showed she was using almost no electricity at all. Fearing that there was a problem she had not reported, they sent a meter reader to check on the matter.
He saw that the power was indeed working properly and so asked the woman, “Do you use the electricity?”
She replied, “Of course we do. We turn it on every night so we can more easily see to light our gas lights and then we turn it off.”
Ridiculous? Yes. Having all that power and not using it.
But some do that with God, don’t they? Saving real prayer power for only really big problems. Someone is sick and dying, a major decision needs to be made and prayer time is then ratcheted up to full force.
Understandable? Unfortunately, yes.
But why not place this confidence in God for minor moments and decisions, as well? For there is a real danger here, this lack of confidence in and prayer toward the living God. If we are not careful, one day those ever-so-occasional prayers will become so seldom a truck could be driven through the space left since last a real deep confidence-in-God prayer was lifted up. And then Bible readings stretch weeks and months apart.
This paucity of a relationship with our heavenly Father.
It’s not what God has in mind when he made us
Our God gave us a mind (spirit), so that we could know Him.
Our God gave us a heart (emotions), so that we could love Him.
Our God gave us a will (freedom of choice), so that we could decide to obey Him.
God put in us a desire to relate to Him and worship Him on a regular basis. In a sense, to seek the light of Christ and keep that light on all the time. Not just at an occasional Sunday morning service, or when a fox hole experience drives us to our knees - but always on. To make God something more than a spiritual Web Site to occasionally visit.
In short, to increase your confidence in God go for an all-out swim in the great ocean of God’s love, rather than a brief wade in some psychological substitute pond.
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