Today’s scripture reading in Romans 9 & 10 talks about obeying God’s Spirit.  Our mind and our spirit may not be on the same page, but it is our spirit that is to be honored.  Our mind has many rational reasons for justifying what we do.  However, if our spirit is not in sync with our mind, we are to not do what the mind is saying.

I am in a state of learning about my spirit and relearning about my mind.  I’ve always given too little attention to my spirit.  That goes back a long ways.  I’ve said many times that I’ve always attributed my spirit to my emotions.  Emotions are what I used to define my dad and I wanted nothing about me looking like that.  My mind is what I used to determine my outcome.  I know my spirit played into this but I would not give credible attention to it.  I’m learning now to let my spirit find voice within me.  This is what is difficult–finding what the voice of my spirit is.

I wrote the last couple days about the dysfunction in my family presently and the difficulty of it.  When I was asking God to help me with it this morning I was concentrating on the hope He provides.  However, He reminded me that I must first believe in order for Hope to have root.  Hope comes from believing.  I have to first believe that God is as capable of helping my daughters as He is me and that they are capable of responding to Him.  If I believe this then I can have hope.  As soon as I heard this from God my spirit was freed.  I hadn’t been believing for a moment.

Present circumstances can truly cloud the reality of God’s work and what we believe about God’s capability to overcome any obstacle/s.  This day I am choosing to believe and to give thanks for what I don’t see but have great HOPE in what God will do and is doing that I can’t see from my human eyes.

If this speaks to any reader, I’d sure like to hear from you about it.  Sharing one each others experiences helps build the belief.  To God be all Glory.