The Life Within...

My reading and studies lately have taken me to a new place. A place where I’ve been focussing on the Spirit within, a new found obedience, the pursuit of silence and the need to surrender.

The shift in focus from what is seen to unseen...
The yearning to feel at peace with my life as it is now...
The desire to turn to Him for His guidance, clarity, reassurance and understanding...
The re-training of a mindset formed by years and years of spiritual neglect...
The acceptance of a life reborn and made new...
The need to please a Father who has given me so much...
The longing to allow the Spirit within to help me become the woman God knows I can be.

Please enjoy the verse below. It’s a long paraphrase but one that expands quite well on the concept of an unseen Spirit dwelling within us; guiding us, comforting us, helping us, nurturing us and being with us at all times. It’s quite a comforting realisation actually.

“But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!” – Romans 8:11 (MSG)

Thank You Heavenly Father for choosing to dwell within me; for seeing the potential in me. Thank You for giving me this gift of life with You and the calm reassurance of having you present all day and every day. In Jesus’ Wonderful Name, Amen.