Spiritual Zeal

I read something a few minutes ago, that shook my spirit a bit. Admittedly, my spirit my be a little more tuned in than normal, as I’m currently at a Men’s Retreat with our church, in the North Georgia mountains. But maybe this is part of the problem – why shouldn’t my spirit be this “tuned in” all the time? But I’m getting ahead of myself…

While reading one of my devotionals earlier I came across this… “It is not possibly to be powerfully filled with the Holy Spirit and yet be lukewarm in our love or our service. His Spirit and our apathy cannot coexist in the same place; there is no fellowship between them.”

Let me repeat part of that, “His Spirit and our apathy cannot coexist in the same place.”

If that doesn’t provide enough conviction, the devotional goes on to reference Revelation 3:15-16, where Jesus spoke of the Laodicean church and called them out for their “lukewarm-ness”. Jesus said he would “spit them out of His mouth”, some translations even say he “would vomit”, because they showed no passion, either cold or hot.

There is a longer aspect of this that God has been stirring in me for several weeks. I still don’t know the full extent of what He is trying to say (or wants me to say), but for today, there is this. Why aren’t we more excited? Why do we not wake up every morning, visibly eager to serve Him? Why are we not excited beyond belief that the Spirit of the Living God lives in us? How are we not constantly filled with awe that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, resides in us? How will people know we are “set apart”, if we appear to be just like everybody else?

And why does it typically take being away from your normal routine, for example, at a Men’s Retreat, to get ourselves in a position to even consider these things?

This is a little bit shorter post than usual, but I strongly suspect there will be more posts along these same lines and topic. God is moving, make no mistake about it. And while I’m not quite sure yet the entirety of what He is trying to reveal, I know this: We better get on board and start moving with Him.

Be excited today! Show some passion and Zeal!

This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!!!