When You Dance With God, Let Him Lead!
by Jill Austin
1 Corinthians 1:2 - But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.
God does not like to be put under a microscope. Perfectionism, performance-driven, and program-oriented attitudes will hinder us from moving in the Holy Spirit!
He is asking all of us to be flexible and to let Him be God. We offend Him by the little boxes we put Him in and by the different ways religion tries to control Him. We say “everything is done in decency and order” but beloved there is something greater than our human logical order: He has divine order. Divine order was for His Son, Jesus, to spit on the ground, make clay with His saliva, and spread it on a man’s eyes so that he would be healed. That doesn’t sound too orderly! Are you willing to move in His divine order and not be so logical and fenced in by formulas that you miss the move of Holy Spirit altogether?
Guess what? God is God, and we are not! So, let Him be God. Often God will move in ways that offend your mind because He wants to test our heart. I feel like the Lord is asking us, “Are you really willing to follow Me, even if you don’t always understand my rhymes and reasons? Are you really willing to make mistakes and be in The School of the Holy Spirit?”
Most of us are more concerned about protecting our own reputation than really being consumed with the fame of His name. Are we willing to step out of the boat in faith, even if we are sometimes wrong, or if we get rejected? What are you willing to risk to learn to hear the Lord? We need to be willing to do anything for God – even make mistakes.
We must make a covenant to be available to however God wants to use us. In my journey of being a weak and broken vessel, I purposed in my heart not to just fall back on The Four Spiritual laws, or other religious tools that we can pull out of our bag of ministry tricks. But rather, I want to be willing to be a fool for Jesus. In the midst of not always knowing why God tells us to do something, we must do what He says simply because we love Him. Do not be afraid to jump off cliffs for God. Another way to spell faith is R-I-S-K!
Prayer: Lord, forgive me for putting You in a box! Let your fire come and baptize me with Your Holy Spirit. Burn up all the religion and control. Teach me how to minister to those whose hearts are broken or need physical or emotional healing. Teach me to let You lead and simply follow You!
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