Thoughts On Spirit and Truth

The Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts him.
Psalm 32:10b

One day, in each of our lives, we wake up with all fear gone, every doubt gone and our entire trust for our self in Father’s hands. Doesn’t that sound relieving? Oh, that hasn’t happened for you yet?
You see, trusting in God isn’t like physical heart surgery. You aren’t put to sleep, unconscious of what is happening all around you and within you. You aren’t dull to the pain and aches of your heart. All of your senses are wide awake. You aren’t in and out of the process within several hours. You have the ability to call out “STOP!!!” You have the ability to get up and walk away. If you don’t like what God is doing in you, you can tell Him as much. Under your very eyes you are completely exposed to God.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5&6

I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth.
Psalm 26:1b-3

There are infinite ways in which God speaks to us. Whether He uses words or actions, they are just as powerful as the next way He can speak. What is one way in which God speaks to you? How do you k now when/if God is speaking to you? Do you trust what He says to you?
Recently, I heard my pastor say something that really jolted me. I cannot remember the exact words, but the concept of what he said sent me into a tailspin of thought and revelation. He was talking about living in Christ and walking in the spirit. He said something about us “receiving in spirit.” For the past week I have been chewing on this and I have realized something that I hadn’t before. First off, if you look in the Bible you will find verses on spirit and truth/trust like this one: “Yet a time is coming and has come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers that the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” –John 4:23-24
You will find a pattern throughout the Bible that links the spirit and truth. We are to worship in “spirit and in truth.” Why doesn’t this passage read “Yet a time is coming and has come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in flesh and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers that the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in flesh and in truth” with the word flesh replacing spirit? Because the Spirit IS truth.

“When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.”
John 16:13-15

So, the first part of this passage “When he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth,” you can look at this verse closer and the message to us would be something like “the Spirit is coming to guide you in the spirit.” So, in order to receive truth we must be in the spirit. Do you understand that?
You see, in order to receive truth from God we have to trust Him, but the only way to trust Him is to walk in the spirit. So that when God does speak to you, you will have no doubt it is God because the Spirit is truth and can only receive truth. That is why we do not trust in “chariots and in horses.” That is why when God gives you a word, you will trust Him. When I trust God, I find that I have a complete peace that dispels doubt and fear. I even appear very calm and quiet. It may be different with you.

“…in quietness and trust is your strength…”
From Isaiah 30:15

Do you see how powerful this is? Look at 1Corinthians 4:1&2 “So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” Now refer back to John 16:13-15 that I mentioned earlier. Do you see it?! Put those verses together and you can read them like this “So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and those entrusted with (the Spirit of truth – with John 16:13-15) the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust (John 16:13-15) must prove faithful.”
If we cannot trust in God, then we are not walking in the spirit. If we are not walking in the spirit we will not truly receive what the Father speaks as truth.