Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name(Psalm 103:1)
When we read “and all that is within me” that doesn't mean that when we don’t feel like worshipping God, praising God, or obeying God that we can say "well, I just don't have it in me to do that for God". If you are a Christian and you say that, what do you mean, that you don't have the Holy Spirit? If you are a Christian you do have it within you to bless God. If you don’t bless God at all you are not born again of God.
Now we won’t always bless God with everything that is within us, we are not going to be perfect this side of heaven. However, that doesn’t mean we have some built in excuse to be passive. Obedience is about as optional as tires on a car; without them, you may have a pretty vehicle, but it isn’t going anywhere. When we see someone with a new car, why do you think we say, "nice wheels?" It is the car that we are saying is nice, but the wheels are representative of that car. In the same way, obedience proves our faith is driving us somewhere, proving that there are tires on our Truth car, and Jesus is at the wheel.
You can bless Him with your heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength. Of course you won’t do it perfectly, but that doesn’t change the fact that there is Life within you, the Life of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit that blesses God. The more you are filled with the Spirit the more you are blessing God. You can get to the place where you are doing so more each day. Of course sometimes our grieving the Holy Spirit has quenched the Life that is within us, and we have a spiritual flat tire. We need to get back to the filling station and get some air. Are you finding that more and more that is within you is blessing God? Is His Life filling you up, or do you have a flat tire?
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“Of course sometimes our grieving the Holy Spirit has quenched the Life that is within us, and we have a spiritual flat tire. We need to get back to the filling station and get some air.”
Hey, was the symbolism intentionally subliminal here? I mean, with the Greek word for spirit being “pnema” (air, breath, or wind) & all.
Ironic, because someone very close to me, who’s been struggling spiritually, actually had a flat tire this morning.
Fascinating “Scripture of the day” to ponder:
“But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.”Is. 63:10
We tend to think of God’s Spirit only as a Person of benign benevolence; but I think this Scripture demonstrates He’s fully capable pouring out His own righteous wrath too.
Granted, it could be read “because His Holy Spirit was grieved, He (the Father, or the “angel” mentioned in Isaiah 63:9, which in Old Testament parlance often refers to the Son) turned to be their enemy…”
But I think the fact that the Holy Spirit was specifically mentioned just prior the act of wrath, means He was a party to the act. I find it hard to accept that only the Father & Son are capable of exhibiting personal wrath.
Also, it should be considered that all capitalization from the Hebrew is assumed by the various translators, & they sometimes interpret according to their pre-dispositions; i.e., since Judaism does not accept the Trinity, they capitalize the “his, he, & himself” of this verse, while not capitalizing “holy spirit.”
Thoughts?
Hey, was the symbolism intentionally subliminal here? I mean, with the Greek word for spirit being “pnema” (air, breath, or wind) & all.
Yes, it was intentional, thanks for noticing...
Ironic, because someone very close to me, who’s been struggling spiritually, actually had a flat tire this morning.
We all get 'em, the question is do we do something about it or just stand there and complain about it?...
Another problem is that when we get to the filling station, we just expect air to pop out without putting the 3 quarters in the machine (i.e. repentance, trust, forgiveness of others)...
I Had a blow-out a couple years ago. My local church became full of strife. And then split.
It's been hard to have the same joy when going through this.
Thanks for the good words. They are helpful.
I go and worship God because I love Him. And also because He demands it.
To God be the glory for great things He has done.
"well, I just don't have it in me to do that for God".
Thank you for the reminder. It is good to keep this foremost in our minds... if Christ is in us, we can definitely do what He asks us to do. The question is ... whose fire will I quench?
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