Listening to the Holy Spirit:
I call some as shepherds, but others to the harvest. I call many to tend, and some to labor in the field. Some lay bricks of tomorrow, still others clean what deteriorates with time. To what have I called you? For a season here, then another there? Your work is not as important as the answering of My call. Seek Me in season and out, for My leading will not be still. Life exists poorly in pools of stagnant water. Exchange and motion give life to what otherwise leads to death. My purpose for you grows as you grow in Me. The ways of the unbeliever, once a strong call to your nature, leave a diminishing track as you proceed to Me. Heed not the upward call of the world, for it leads not upward in the Kingdom. Follow now My voice, and the greater life will follow. In eternity, but also in time, you will find rest and calling to complete this faithful obedience. My hand has been on you from the beginning. I formed you for the path in which I now lead. Follow My way, that you might find life abundant and purpose full.
Jer 2:13 (ESV) – For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
John 37-38 – (ESV) – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
Luke 6:46 (ESV) – “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Matt 6:33 (ESV) – But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Taking It to Work:
When my family and I lived in Mexico, it was very common to get all your household water from a tinaco, which was basically a large plastic cistern that was filled by a constant trickle of “city water.” Let me tell you, looking down into that water was not for the faint of heart. Sludge at the bottom, waterbugs, an who knows what else. I told the boys just forget what you saw, and not a word to your mother!
Sometimes, especially when we are not paying attention, we can grow stagnant as well. Spiritually stagnant. Our life might be busy, but the stirring and growing of our souls can be motionless. It’s easy to do; to let our careers and home life consume us so completely that our spiritual growth is almost non-existent.
A great remedy for this is a simple three step process: #1 Set some time away each day to meet with God in prayer, #2 While you are there, have your Bible in your hand, and listen for Him speaking to you through His Word, and #3 See your workplace and homelife now as platforms where you practice the Godly things that He will show you in your daily meeting with Him.
Now let me address what most of you are thinking. “I don’t have time”. Yes you do. We always have time for the important things in life. We make time. And when we do that with God, my experience is that He more than makes up for it during the day. Things go easier. My work is more anointed. The job gets done faster. The traffic wasn’t as bad.
He is the God of time, and when you give Him that time in the morning, He can do whatever He wants with the rest of the day, including blessing it!
Before you know it, if your consistent and sincere in meeting with Him regularly, and following His morning leadings for your day at work or home, your trickling tinaco will be replaced with rivers of living water, blessing your life and your spiritual growth once again, as His Word works in you, today.
