[The following is a reprint, slightly reworked, of my post of April 10, 2012.]
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, more should, be able to get my self-determined needs met by thinking, by analyzing, plotting, planning. This is arm wrestling with God, a egoic 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 flow 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, as in a loved one's health, my petty peeves, my I'm right/you're wrong mental games. When I am lifted there, 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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