Psalm 43:3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

Towards the end of yesterday’s devotional I mentioned a better truth. Today I would like to explore that idea. It stems from a unity of spirit, mind and condition of the heart. The mind changes as it sees the need. The heart changes as it yields to the will of God in conformance. The spirit does not change for it is of God.

Jeremiah 29:3 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Seek and find are issues of the mind but the desire to search out God has to be a condition of the heart. In order for the spirit to lead us in truth, to God, there has to be a unity of the spirit, mind and heart. Without that unity, there is always going to be a pull or resistance from a heart that is not driving the effort of the mind.

Job 11:13-14 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Christ dwells in the tabernacle of your heart. As your heart is cleansed by Him it seeks to agree with the spirit in revealing the truth to your mind. That heart change is not instant for Christ is gentle in His mercies not to destroy whatever unity has begun in us to yield the fruits of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 2:9b-10 Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Yesterday I quoted my favorite and most meaningful passage of the bible. During the study of this God revealed I had it wrong all these years. Was I to hold my opinion over God’s revelation or confess my limited ability and agree with God?

I yield my opinion to God. I did not regret my mistake for my opinion held sway over an immature mind and encouraged me to press on where I needed to be encouraged. In days past I would have taken this revelation as rejection, flogged myself for my stupidity, and taken a step backwards to try and identify where I had gone wrong.

Today, more mature, knowimg God better that I did in days gone past, I yield without complaint, without shame, without any sense of being wrong, and see that I am still able to grow in Christ.

The old man would have doubted himself and searched out every thought as to value and truth. I would have lost confidence in my very thoughts and doubted every action that I take. The new man, the more mature man yields to God for allowing my error to work good to a mind that was not yet ready to hear a better truth.

Praise be to God that His promise of conformance is now witnessed in my mind, being not only able but willing to let go of what I think and believe in favor of truth. Acceptance of this began with an awareness of the fruit of the spirit. One can see the fruit of the spirit, yet like any fruit, it matures with time.

Young fruit is small, hard, faint in color, and not ready to yield a seed of its own.

I yielded.