Are you trusting God?  Are you developing your own plan of maximum efficacy or are you being led into your next impossible task by the Voice of the Shepherd?  How do you view fear’s influence upon your current ambitious walk for Christ?  Do you hear the voice of your husband, wife, kids, flesh or desire flooding out the precious voice of Spirit?  Do you even recognize God’s voice when you hear it, or have you quenched it with the luke warm price of disobedience and inaction?  God told you to pray unceasingly, are you?  He told you to be Holy are you?  He told you to spread the good news of Christ’s Gospel, are you?  He told you to be ready, study to show yourself approved, follow Him and give Him all the Glory, are you?

What is  your evidence for salvation?  What fruits has your new life born?  Show me your likeness to Christ.  Show me your kinship to the Holy Spirit.  Show me your faith without which it is impossible to please God.  What is the rock upon which you stand if you do not know the voice, path, discernment, teachings, prophecy and Peace of the Prince?  Will you instead offer up deeds, works, thoughts and piety in place of the required faithful action?  Show me how the Holy Spirit has made you humble, reverent, Holy, sanctified, obedient and more like Christ, then we shall see your salvation.

Two paths, one serves Him and the other serves false gods of self or sin.  They are mutually exclusive, there is no symbiotic cumbaya, no parallel, no tolerance, no co-existence, only inclusion and its inverse.  Certainly, we wish to fashion a god of our own devices, something more consistent with our personal desires for gain, no pain and lasting pleasure or prosperity.  That is deceptive sin.  For God is God and does not need my definition, direction or approval.  He made me not the other way around.  His purpose upon which my service or disobedience have little affect against His intention, since I am a tool and He the tool maker, user and completer.  He may negate or turn to good anything I ill intended.  I know that I would like more influence upon the universe in my pride and demanding ego, but that just ain’t the way things are.  Ignoring reality is ineffectual.  Our existence is finite, there simply is or isn’t, no wiggle, no middle, no position for passivity with regard to our fateful decision.  We are either with Him or against Him.  Simple, clean, precise, undeniable, yet this world continues to seek gaps in omniscient Truth where no loophole ever existed.

If you are not hearing the Holy Spirit in your Church, shouldn’t you be asking why not?  If the Holy Spirit is our seal for eternity, our guide, our counselor, teacher, friend and conveyor of our prayers to God, wouldn’t it be insanity to proceed without Him?  If the Holy Spirit is not present in your church, fight until they listen and invite Him back in or run until you hear His Voice clearly.  Be prepared for tribulation and if you aren’t don’t stand around like and ill-informed maiden, find out how to fill your lamp with oil and do so out of obedient love for God, working out your salvation with fear and trembling.  Anything else is utter foolishness and none of should ever be considered fools that have first known the mind of Christ.  In Jesus’ Name.