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How To Seek The Holy Spirit by aliyunesta: 1:01pm On Jan 16, 2019 |
December 6 last year at 6:45 in the morning, I was sitting in
my chair in our living room. It was still dark outside, and my
one reading light was on beside the chair. My iPad was open to
my daily Bible reading portion. I had just spent my 36 minutes
on the treadmill in the attic, showered, made myself a cup of
hot tea, and settled in to enjoy a time of fellowship with the
Lord Jesus over his word.
I remember pausing before I begin to read and thinking: I love
this quietness. I love this room with its carpet and furniture
and fireplace. I love this chair the way it supports me. I love
the lighting in this one small spot on this dark, cold morning. I
love the feeling in my muscles and the warmth of this orange
wool sweater. And I love the sweetness of this tea, and that I
have no pain anywhere in my body.
And then my mind shifted. I had been reading a book called
Avenue of Spies by Alex Kershaw about the French resistance
in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. I had read how the
Gestapo would arrest anyone suspected of disloyalty to the
Nazi regime, and to make more room in the prison, they might
simply shoot fifty suspected collaborators. And I read about
the tortures as they tried to break the secret circles of
espionage against Nazi occupation.
And as I sat there in my exquisite comfort, with my cushioned
chair, and my woolen sweater, and my hot tea, and quiet
stillness, I pictured myself being arrested, stripped, plunged
into a tub of ice water — and just as I could resist screaming
no longer, being held down under water until I sucked water
into my lungs. Some had never recovered. They died. Some
recovered, and were asked if they wanted to betray their
countrymen, or be plunged under the water again.
Only in my imagination, I was being persecuted for Jesus, and
all I had to do to save my life, and go back to my comfortable
home, was to say the words, “Jesus is not my Lord, and Jesus
is not my Savior, and Jesus is not the Treasure of my life.”
And as I thought about that moment, and whether I would have
what it takes to endure agony without renouncing Jesus, I
pleaded with my heavenly Father for the power of the Holy
Spirit — that by the Spirit, God would make himself and his
Son, the Lord Jesus, so real to me, and so glorious to me, and
so satisfying to me, that these domestic pleasures all around
me would be as nothing by comparison, and that I would be
able, when the time came, to endure. |
Re: How To Seek The Holy Spirit by profeazy: 1:10pm On Jan 16, 2019 |
What is there to life that you'll give up for Christ? The whole of all these is not as real as Jesus! |
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