Our senior pastor has been leading us through a walk into Romans 8. This is a challenging chapter written by Paul who had a transformation in his life when he encountered Jesus Christ. I love how Paul describes in the chapter the battle we have between living in our flesh vs living in our surrendered life. The advantages of the surrendered life have eternal value so it far outweighs any momentary advantage of the flesh. What has been hugely on my mind and heart is the fact that in this chapter, The Holy Spirit is referenced 18 times but we don’t dwell on the value of The Holy Spirit’s purpose in this transformation of living out the surrendered life as Paul had learned.

In my lifetime I’ve sought to find out more about living life fully led by The Holy Spirit. There are denominations that seem to push this to the extreme and those who seem to avoid the topic almost completely. I just want to find what Christ Himself had in mind for each one of us as He gave The Holy Spirit to live in us while we are here on earth in the flesh.

Today I’m meeting with our senior pastor to discuss this topic and how I can be a better learner in this. As I asked Jesus this morning while journaling what He wanted me to know from Him for today, He simply said, “Don’t try and determine what the outcome of the meeting today will be. The nudge you received to have this meeting was all I gave you, so be obedient to the nudge and go to the meeting. The outcome will then take place in the meeting. This is called TRUSTING THE HOLY SPIRIT.” It seems like such a simple thing to do, but boy do I always want to take it further. So, today at this moment–I TRUST!