Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Knowing about the Lord is not the same as being known by the Lord.
Acts 19:2: “He said to them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? So, they said to him, we have not so much has heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
John 14:23: “Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My Word; and My Father will love him and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”
There was a time as a believer I lived just like I did before I believed. I believed what I knew about the Lord but I didn’t know how to stop living an unbelieving life. I was ignorant. I knew better, but I didn’t know how to be better. How could I become someone I didn’t know when I couldn’t stop being who I was?
The believers in the book of Acts tell Paul, how can we know if we have the Holy Spirit when we don’t know anything about the Holy Spirit? I was like that. I didn’t know how to not be the person I was because I didn’t know how to be someone that I wasn’t.
I imagine there are many more people like me. We have difficulty living by anything but our flesh because that is all we will allow ourselves to know. When our relationship with the Lord is built more on our knowledge of Him than on submission to Him, we are slow to understand the Power we can have to live by Him and by His Spirit.
Paul explained to the people in Acts how their belief got them into the arena to watch the game, but their obedience got them into the game so that the Holy Spirit could help them win. Many of us are like this; we can get to a place of belief, but our place of belief doesn’t take us to a place of obedience. But now you know. We live powerless lives even with the Power of God within us.
A mature believer knows that it is better for the Lord to come into our hearts and for us to come to live out our lives in Him. That is God’s design for us. To be one in Him rather than to be ourselves with knowledge of Him. It is in Him that we can receive understanding around the presence and the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
When we wake up each day and find our lives in the life of Christ, the Holy Spirit will help us to put to death more of the person we were yesterday so that more of the person we should be in Him can live today. Now you know. Jesus is amazing! Before He was betrayed, He prayed that His disciples and all believers would become one in Christ and God. He wanted us to be unified as one just as He and God are one.
The Lord does not want us to be like the believers in Acts who knew nothing of the Holy Spirit. If you don’t feel like you are living a new life in Christ each day, you probably are not. If you can remember more of your old life than a new life, more of your old life is probably living than it is dead. Now you know.
Don’t allow believing to be nothing more than an intellectual understanding that Jesus is our Savior. Life with knowledge of Christ is not the same as Life where Christ has knowledge of you. Believing also means we die to an old life in ourselves as we accept a new life in Christ. To many of us we want to have a life of knowing Him; but when our belief in Him makes us give in to Him, we can have a life where He knows us.
Now you have heard; now you know; now you can let go; now you can have all that the Holy Spirit can help you to have. If you never stop living like you did, you make it difficult to live the way you can with Christ. Now you know; let your life be home to God the Father and to the Lord Jesus Christ. Your life; Their home.
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