Doug L (1 May 2016)
"The watching World
says - Hypocrites !"
The Mountain Top - An Intense Spiritual Experience as in The
Transfiguration of Jesus.
The flesh wants to take control over the spirit to continue the
experience.
Do we notice ? or just continue in our own ability with our best
efforts - quenching The Spirit.
Do we sense the work of the flesh and recognize it's fruit ?
Is there love-joy-peace-patience-goodness-kindness-humility and
faith ? Or
Impatience - irritation-pride-anger, no peace-no joy- no faith
and No Love ?
God withdraws and waits for us to miss His presense, peace,
power and Love.
When we finally see and smell the effects of our own fruit
(works) we wake up to the fact He is not the one we have been
walking with.
We have been led astray by our own thoughts and imaginations or
deceived by the enemy to believe that we can finish in the flesh
the work that God began in the Spirit.
We have taken our gaze off our first love to pursue another.
The closer we walk with The Lord the more obvious this
becomes and the less likely we are to stray the next time.
We must constantly be aware of what kind of fruit our lives
produce - if it is not the fruit of The Spirit , that God
requires, but our own righteousness - The watching World says -
Hypocrites !