Scripture: Galatians 3:1-3
Journal: How are you “continuing on” in the life of the Spirit these days? Where and how are you tempted to revert back
to the ways of the “flesh?”
Reflection:
I hardly know a more solemn warning in God’s
Word than that which we find in the third chapter of Galatians, where Paul
asked: “Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
Do you understand what that
means? A terrible danger in Christian
work, just as in a Christian life that begun with much prayer, begun in the
Holy Spirit, is that it may be gradually shunted off on to the lines of the
flesh; and the word comes: “Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect
by the flesh?” In the time of our first
perplexity and helplessness, we prayed much to God, and God answered and God
blessed, and our organization became perfected, and our band of workers became
large: but gradually the organization and the work and the rush have so taken
possession of us that the power of the Spirit, in which we began when we were a
small company, has almost been lost. Oh,
I pray, note it well! It was with a new prayer
and fasting, with more prayer and fasting, that the company of disciples (in
Acts 13:1-4) carried out the command of the Holy Ghost. “My soul, wait thou only upon God.” That is our highest and most important
work. The Holy Spirit comes in answer to
believing prayer. (Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses by Andrew
Murray)
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts
may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be
holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that
I love but what is holy. Strengthen
me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always
may be holy. Amen. —St. Augustine
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