One of the Spirit’s primary vehicles for moving and speaking in our lives is the Scriptures. The Spirit works in us to shape us into being the kind of people God wants us to be, because then we will be and do who God wants us to be and do.
Almost every time we see the phrase “will of God” in the Bible it refers to shaping our moral character in response to the gospel. I’m not sure this is the kind of blessing you can put a percentage on, but so often God’s direction for us can be found in the Bible.
This is the way the Spirit transforms us to Christ’s character as we see in Romans 12:1-2 “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.” (The Message)
Samuel Logan Brengle the great holiness teacher speaks of such Spirit transformation as, “Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people in the lowly walks of life can share with Jesus, by letting His mind be in them.”
God of Grace,
you call us to be different from the world,
but the world is seductive,
and so we come here to be strengthened.
God of Vision,
you hold before us an alternate way of life,
different priorities,
different loyalties,
different values.
But we know that the world
is not only seductive but powerful,
and so we are drawn in
to following its priorities,
accepting its values,
showing loyalty to its gods.
God who blesses the meek,
the peacemakers, the merciful,
forgive us when we lose sight of these qualities,
when we misunderstand their role in the world. Amen
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