How have you experienced the dark times in your life? How has God shown you Light when you couldn’t see your way forward? I don’t think our Triune Hod gives a long term reveal of how our journey will unfold. He wants us to trust Him one step at a time. If we knew everything that would happen in our lives, I’m not sure we would trust Him with a deep faith. Our finite minds could not withstand the full measure of Hos infinite plan.
“Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is identifying the work of the Spirit as the work of Satan. That was what the scribes did. They attributed Jesus’s work of casting out demons to the work of Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons. In their stubborn resistance to Jesus and his ministry, they rejected the evidence before them. They were closed-minded, unwilling to think outside of their own narrow perspective. They demanded that everything conform to their system of thought. Anything that challenged their beliefs had to be discounted and rejected. The Hebrew Scriptures used the terms “hard hearted” and “stiff necked” to describe such stubborn resistance.” - Excerpt. Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
“The ministry of the Holy Spirit is entirely about translating the teachings and promises of Jesus in a way that forms us at the deepest level—rewriting our neural pathways and enabling us to embody our redemption. The Holy Spirit pushes the teachings of Jesus from the head, where they can be understood, down into the heart, where they can heal our emotions and become a new foundation for us to live from.” - Excerpt, The Familiar Stranger by Tyler Staton
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