Our Will and the Holy Spirit Become One Living in Us—R Fritz
What does that mean to us? It means we have God and his wisdom at our disposal; we just have to ask. The problem is understanding what we have and using what we have for God’s glory. Our decision to choose Jesus was the smartest decision we could make that will change our lives forever. It requires us to investigate who Jesus is and what he can do for us. Jesus wants to be our teacher and Comforter to make the right decisions. The Comforter or the Holy Spirit is our conscience if we choose that because we have free will, or we can decide to give up our free will and surrender to the will of God through the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit becomes our driving force, where our thoughts are from the Holy Spirit, and we accept them, our lives will change because we have given control over to God. That does not mean we do not get to make our own decisions; it means the Holy Spirit can give us wisdom immediately as we are talking to somebody or working our way through issues. The Holy Spirit does not force his thoughts on us, as Satan tries to camouflage the thoughts Satan gives us as our own by fitting Satan’s in our thought process. That is why our relationship with the Holy Spirit is important, because this is where the Holy Spirit gives us his resources to overcome what Satan plans. Satan plans to steal our lives, kill our dreams, and destroy our families. John 10:10 says, and this is Jesus speaking “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. Jesus is the good shepherd who is there for us; he never leaves nor forsakes us. 1Peter 5:8 says, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” We need to know our enemy, Satan’s tools are to lie, bring doubt, deception, and confusion. Satan mixes a little truth with lies, misquotes scripture, brings back to memory things spoken about our past, and wants to tell us God does not love us for things in our lives. It is doom and gloom where Satan wants us to stay.
God’s plan for each of us is completely different than Satan’s, starting with love, hope, grace, mercy, joy, peace, the ability to know, love, follow, and obey God. The Bible has the answers to many of our questions, and sometimes we need to dig into the Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to show us what we are looking for. That plan has us in mind with the tools to become who we are meant to be. We need to ask the Holy Spirit what his plan is for us. Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” We should work on our relationship; it is a lifetime project. It starts with prayer; prayer directed at the LORD to give us our plan with a serious desire to find the LORD with all our heart. It always starts with us being serious and showing God that we want to know him more than anything in our lives. Our actions show how serious we are in finding the LORD. The Holy Spirit is waiting on us to show we meant what we said that time when we said we chose Jesus. At any time in our lives, we can decide to follow and change our relationship with Jesus. I looked at Jesus as a relationship with friends. It is a different relationship now that I know Jesus, a relationship where we can say what we mean because the Holy Spirit knows us.
God is a Spirit, and we need to understand that. John 4:24 says, and this is Jesus speaking, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. God sent Jesus, himself in the flesh as a man, to take the sentence on sinners of death, where death will not influence those who choose and obey him, because our earthly death becomes our eternal life. That is an easy way to understand God’s plan for all of us. Those who do not choose Jesus face eternal death. After Jesus left, the Holy Spirit came in Jesus’s name. John 14:26 says, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” In other words, Jesus said we would be taken care of when he left. Jesus says if we love him, we will keep his words. The Holy Spirit came to teach us all things.
We, in turn, need to decide if what we are doing serves first Jesus, ourselves, and our family. It is also about looking into the future and where we want to be, and that includes our life with Jesus being at the top of our lives. When we put Jesus first, our other obligations will be taken care of. Sometimes we forget about the Holy Spirit; we need to learn to seek him with all our hearts, then ask the questions to get our answers. I have learned to keep the issues we are dealing with close, but keep the Holy Spirit in my thoughts closer to where he comes to mind. We become the person God wants us to be when we surrender ourselves to the Holy Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit be who is in control of our lives. God Bless.
