To "sow to the Spirit" is to place all reliance, all trust, all hope in a higher power deep within. That is to turn from our ego-victory reasoning mind and reap the things of the Spirit.
It was only by divorcing myself from my own opinion that I realized that truth. It was my opinion that I could or should be able to get my self-determined needs met by thinking, by analyzing, plotting, planning. This is arm wrestling with God, a no-win proposition.
Our very problems, through our own reasoning-mind efforts to overcome them, only grow bigger and uglier...until we experience that grand and glorious sensation of crashing and burning. Only then do we reach for help from an unknown, unseen source. Only then can God's grace rush out from within to save us from our own self-determined fix-it objectives...in Its own way, in Its own time.
It's a whole new way of thinking to be grateful, and sincerely grateful, for all my worries as they are happening...a loved one's health, my petty peeves, my I'm right/you're wrong mental games. It is when I achieve that, that I am free and do know a complete reliance on God.
Failure of aid from outside sources opens me to my "complete reliance on that which heretofore has never been experienced...the Infinite Invisible" which brings the realization that "My grace is sufficient for thee."
Thank You.
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