Conviction (still) isn’t comfortable (Pt. 2)
A significant part of the training at CIT includes a morning devotional called “Heart of the Missionary” which really focuses on the Gospel and breaking it down into its foundational and most profound parts. It has been incredibly healthy for us as we prepare to depart, we seem to have glossed over many significant points in our everyday life. Especially in our marriage, Laura and I have been able to evaluate our source and supply from which so much encouragement and joy originates.
A profound point that struck us (among many) is the fact of our heavenly adoption that Paul describes in Romans 8. The realization that God as heavenly father has pulled us out of a status and life of slavery and bought us to be his own child adds an incredible dimension to our walk as Christians. To more deeply grasp the concept that we are considered sons and daughters of the king is truly humbling for my own life and propels me to share the work of the Gospel in my life with others.
But the point really didn’t mean much for my daily walk and struggle until I was bluntly told to look to the Holy Spirit as inward agent of change. God’s relationship with me is constant but my relationship with him grows as I rely on the work of the Holy Spirit to direct my heart, thoughts, words, and actions. The blunt comment was something to the effect of, ‘Thadd, you need to look to God, the Holy Spirit, as a person involved in all of your life and not solely as deity.’ I struggle with this statement as I think of the other two persons of the trinity as more personable: God as father, Jesus as relating to humanity and me personally on the cross, but the Holy Spirit gets left out of my personal life.
My prayer is for the Holy Spirit to be more present in my personal life and to help me to rely on his working through me as he relates to me as comforter and molds me to be more aware of what a wonderful adoption I have in Christ.
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