God-Intoxicated
Laubach wrote, “But this year I have started out to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, “What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire this minute?””
Is it possible to abide in Jesus moment by moment? Laubach said, “I know what it means to be ‘God-intoxicated,’” I wonder if that is even on our radar. So much of Christianity in our culture is treated more along the lines of fire insurance than daily walking, abiding, and intoxication.
Jesus said He only did what He saw the Father do (John 5:19), He also said He only said what He heard the Father say (John 12:49-50). The Spirit that empowered Jesus is the same Spirit that in now in us. He leads us, guides us, teaches us, and according to Psalm 25 shows us the right path and points out the road for us to follow.
I want to share what I’ve been trying to learn, this simple fact, God is interested in our total obedience. Paul stresses the means to this in Galatians 5:25, “If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.” The phrase “keep in step” is a military term…it has to do with marching in cadence with Him. Not one step out of cadence…that’s the Goal!!
I’m trying , believe me I’m not perfect in this Game of Minutes, but I’m trying to learn to ask, “God what do you want me to do?” An even harder lesson for me is to ask, “God, what would you have me say right now?” or “God, should I say anything?”
This may be foreign to our current Christian culture, but it isn’t foreign to the Word of God. The Psalmist asked, “Take control of what I say7, O Lord, and guard my lips.” (Psalm 141:3). In Psalm 51:15 he asked, “Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you.” And again in 119:71, “Let praise flow from my lips for you have taught me your decrees.”
If God could touch Jeremiah’s mouth and put His words in his mouth, is it too far of a request that God would set a guard over our mouths and that He would lead every single moment of our lives?
Is it possible to abide in Jesus moment by moment? Laubach said, “I know what it means to be ‘God-intoxicated,’” I wonder if that is even on our radar. So much of Christianity in our culture is treated more along the lines of fire insurance than daily walking, abiding, and intoxication.
Jesus said He only did what He saw the Father do (John 5:19), He also said He only said what He heard the Father say (John 12:49-50). The Spirit that empowered Jesus is the same Spirit that in now in us. He leads us, guides us, teaches us, and according to Psalm 25 shows us the right path and points out the road for us to follow.
I want to share what I’ve been trying to learn, this simple fact, God is interested in our total obedience. Paul stresses the means to this in Galatians 5:25, “If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.” The phrase “keep in step” is a military term…it has to do with marching in cadence with Him. Not one step out of cadence…that’s the Goal!!
I’m trying , believe me I’m not perfect in this Game of Minutes, but I’m trying to learn to ask, “God what do you want me to do?” An even harder lesson for me is to ask, “God, what would you have me say right now?” or “God, should I say anything?”
This may be foreign to our current Christian culture, but it isn’t foreign to the Word of God. The Psalmist asked, “Take control of what I say7, O Lord, and guard my lips.” (Psalm 141:3). In Psalm 51:15 he asked, “Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you.” And again in 119:71, “Let praise flow from my lips for you have taught me your decrees.”
If God could touch Jeremiah’s mouth and put His words in his mouth, is it too far of a request that God would set a guard over our mouths and that He would lead every single moment of our lives?
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