Having The Proper Fuel

I remember a time when I was young, ever-anxious to offer help to my father in order to prove to him that I was useful. One day, I remember helping him with the riding lawn-mower and it needed fuel. So I went over to the other side of the garage and grabbed a can of "fuel".

When I handed it over to my father I remember him telling me this is not "the right fuel" for this machine. He said, "it needs a special fuel" in order for the machine to run properly. Even though I was too young to understand at the time, a lesson had begun for me that day that not all machines take the same kind of fuel.

When we apply this principle to our spirit, the same truth is at work. Far too often humanity tries to live life by an improper fuel. The reason we all too often fail to thrive in our spiritual walk has much to do with trying to run on "the wrong fuel". In fact, the only proper way to live life spiritually is to allow God's Holy Spirit to indwell and have authority to properly govern our lives. Much of the problem with our inability to see or understand how to live our lives has much to do with trying to do things in our own strength and willpower. If we try to apply biblical principles and live "the Christian life" without the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, we will repeatedly fail to live life as our Heavenly Creator intended it to be. In-fact, to live our lives by the insistence of our own willpower and strength is to reject God entirely and claim our own power to be greater than that of God's.

John 15:5 reads, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."

If we have the desire to do and live as God has designed our lives to be, we must trust and believe that He and He alone is the proper fuel for our lives. You wouldn't put milk in your car's gas tank would you? Why try to live your life without the power of the Holy Spirit?

Perspective Thinking

As the ladybug stranded on a piece of drift wood lost upon the waves of the pacific, are we in our understanding of the infinite beyond of The Almighty God. We cannot fathom the depths and the reaches of the planet we belong to, let alone reason among one another the grand scheme of purpose to which we are here. Life is but a blink upon the endless sea of all existence; a lesser fraction than can ever be made divisible, we are so small and yet we cannot seem to perceive just how small we are compared to the infinite "mysterium tremendum" of the Almighty!

We think we know. We have the audacity to claim knowledge for ourselves. We crave wealth, power, and understanding yet we remain oh so ignorant to the endless perfection of our Holy Creator, the One and Only God. He who is beyond the capacity to know, is HOLY, He is Beyond, He is Further, Greater, MORE than MORE than... and we are powerless, weak, fragile, shattered, broken and helpless. Were it not for His will, we would cease to be, nay we would never be...

Such is the perspective we must hold to know how we must praise the Living God; to appreciate in our helplessly finite ability the LORD who is our Creator, Master, Deliverer, Savior, Fortress, Strength and oh how words simply fail us to describe He Who is so Holy!!! How can we do anything but worship Him? Praise Him? Honor Him? and Live for Him?

...yet... we betray Him... I weep for the loss of words for all creation...