Keep in Step With the Spirit

The late Bill Bright said that each morning he got on his knees and said, "God, these are Your hands to use today; this is Your mind to think Your thoughts in today; this is your mouth to speak through today; and since You came to seek and to save the lost, go right on seeking and saving the lost through me today."

The only way we can live this dependent life as Christ did is to do what the writer to the Hebrews referred to as resting from our own works. "Anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work" (Hebrews 4:10).

To rest from our own works is to refrain from doing our own thing. Our own works are those things we do which are out of step with the Spirit. They are our works--not the words or works chosen by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus is our example. He ceased from His own works and lived only to please His Father and could say, "I seek not to please myself but him who sent me" (John 5:30).

Give us grace, Lord, to see those words and works we are doing that are out of step with Your Spirit.

"If we live the by the (Holy) Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit-If by the (Holy) Spirit we have our life [in God], let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25 Amplified).