Alright, Everybody.
So hear me out.
This note is probably going to be all over the place, but just allow yourself to really hear me.
I believe and know so deeply and assuredly in my heart that the Holy Spirit is the same exact Holy Spirit that was present in the early church. So why aren’t we seeing huge Holy Spirit revivals like God tells us about in Acts 2:41? I have some ideas.
Our flesh is like any other living flesh. Think of a real leather belt. When you first buy it, it is movable and soft. As you use it and use it day after day, it begins to get harder and harder in texture. You think, “My pants definetly won’t stay up unless I use that belt.” Day after day of relying on that belt to keep your pants up, the leather is really starting to show its weathering with toughness and cracks and just exhaustion. The belt is no longer movable and pretty. It’s worn out and really to fall apart. Maybe it’s already falling apart.
Okay, so you’re probably thinking I have diverted big time but listen to this. Your life is like those pants abd your flesh is like that belt. You feel like your life is going to fall apart because you’re not making a personal effort to “hold it together” with that belt of yourself. You think that if you’re not in control, then your life will just fall apart. But do we really realize that each time we use our flesh (that belt of protection), it gets harder and harder? Just like that belt, our life and everything about us begins to show signs of weathering and use. But the worst part is that our flesh is hard. And if you believe God didn’t lie when He said “your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?” (1 Corinthians 6:19), then our overused and hardened flesh is restricting the power and the mobility of the Holy Spirit. Now this is not to say God could never use weathered flesh to accomplish His will, but why would He want to when there are a few who are soft and who have surrendered their “temple” to the “Holy spirit” “who is in” them (1 Corinthians 6:19)?
The richest, most sweetest part of this story is the redeeming power of our beautiful Savior, Jesus Christ. When we completely surrender our flesh and our will to the Man who made them, our “top coat” gets softer and softer, more and more moldable because of what God is doing inside us. Each time we want to rely on our own power to pull that all nighter or start a new ministry or pursue that girl or this guy, our flesh gets tougher in a really ugly way. But on the flipside, when we surrender our flesh to God and allow the Holy Spirit to be our Guidence and our Helper and our will, we’d be surprised how God would use that same all nighter as a praise for the King on high or that same new ministry in a way we never thought imaginable or God would bless that possible relationship. And it’s because God had grace enough to allow us to relinquish that binding control of our own will to the power of that same Holy Spirit that raised our Glorious Savior from the dead and added “three thousand souls” to the Kingdom of Heaven in a single day (Acts 2:41). It is because of our reliance on our flesh for the accomplishment of both the tiny and huge thing that restricts the power of the Holy Spirit in our life and the lives around us.
So answer your call to live a life fully surrendered to the power of the Holy Spirit. Who needs a belt when God can keep your pants up? Get fat in Jesus and you wont even need a that to keep your pants from falling down.
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