What
do you need to do so that your spiritual life is producing an
abundant crop? (Serendipity Bible 10th anniversary edition,
page 1397).
Communication
with the Holy Spirit is the key to all that follows. If we are not
sensitive to the leadings of the spirit, then we are subject to great
error. This is true because we often have to do what we feel in our
hearts is right even though we cannot completely understand it
intellectually. This difficulty is compounded by social context. As
Joyce Meyer mentioned in today's devotional: "Even if you are
the only one responding your way, be bold enough to follow your
heart.”** That is, our assurance requires faith and trust.
Starkly put, "Not everything God asked us to do is going to make
sense in our minds. Learn how to go with what you sense inside
your heart. If you don't have peace about doing something, then
don't do it. If you have peace about something, don't let your
friends talk you out of it just because they don't understand.”
(Ibid). Here, way out there in the blue, proposed action must
be defensible in the first order as within the context of God's love
and secondarily calibrated within the Wesleyan quadrilateral: how
does my decision bear up under reference to Scripture, experience,
tradition, and reason? Yet, even so, we must remember that God is God
and it is He we must trust in the end, nothing else. In short, one
can be subject to judgment calls of being fool-hearty, dangerously
risky, engaging in the untried and untested, and even courting the
absurd. Significant advances towards the goal enunciated in the Lord's
Prayer (Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven) sometimes
necessitates the courage to be different—even profoundly and
disturbingly so.
**Joyce
Meyer, Power Thoughts Devotional, p 29).
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