05- 11- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (John14:26; 15:26)
LEARNING BY TRUSTING THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
26- “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” 26- “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:”
God is a God of mercy. God is good. God is patient. God is love. God is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The Bible says in (Hebrews 13:8) “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
If we are serving that kind of God, then it’s just right to trust the leading of the Holy Spirit.
A preacher said: “…we could learn from this analogy of the potter and the clay at this point is that God is very merciful; He’s very patient, that when people are flawed or have defects, (sin, we would say), He doesn’t just throw them away and get a new lump of clay, but He continues to work with that same lump of clay, over and over, until finally it’s one that He’s happy with. Now I think we take a lot of delight, a lot of relief in knowing that God works with us. Once He starts to work with us He doesn’t stop; He continues until we’re to the place that He’s content.”
No matter how good the Potter is, if the clay would not yield, nothing will happen. No matter how good God is, how powerful God is, if we don’t yield and cooperate with what God is doing, everything would be a mess. No matter how powerful God is, if you don’t trust the leading of the Holy Spirit, then we would never receive God’s blessing and the Lord cannot work in us and through us. (Proverbs 3:5- 6) 5- “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6- In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
God can’t work in you and through you unless you will put your trust in Him by letting Him work in you. According to STEPS IN DEVELOPING HUMILITY- “The true knowledge of God leads to humility. Humility is not the self deprecation with which many of us are often acquainted. Rather, it is the refusal to trust oneself for fulfillment of needs, looking instead to the Lord.” (Spirit Filled Life Bible, page 754)
Let us be encouraged from the words of Apostle Paul in the Book of (Romans 9:20- 21; 23) 20- “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21- Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 23- And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,”
