Knowing the Word of God is imperative. Almost the minute we know it, though, it becomes secondary. Until we are doing the Word of God, all the while feeling scared, uncertain, quaky and shaky, our knowing is virtually locked in a box in our reasoning mind. Where we pull it out often to quote, lecture and assure others of the rightness of it.
We can be sure that arguing, fighting, or, for that matter, remaining silent out of fear, are not tools of the Lord's...of our reasoning mind, but not God's will. The quandary, of course, is that we live in the material world. There will be times when we must stand up, speak up, for or against.
Our still more spiritual growth is in the self-discipline we have been working toward that allows us that half-second of silence that invites the Lord's way and will to flow for the benefit of all concerned.
There will be times when we just don't quite get the Word...those are the times we will come to know as sacred. Having come away from our own self thus far, we have no choice but to speak...very likely regretting in the next instant the words we spoke. In our quiet time later we often realize either how exactly right our words were or how useful they will prove to be...not from our clever thinking, but by God's perfect intervention.
We learn that when we speak without that moment given to God, even when the outcome looks right, we feel wrong. We realize that we have relied yet again on self-will, and, pretty as it may look, it is the wrong path heading us in the wrong direction.
It is in that moment given to God that God is the breath we breathe. We may not even know it...ah, but there's the gift: We show it.
Thank you.
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