Philippians 2:14a Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

OK, now you’re just being unreasonable.

I opened up my biblegateway bible app and this is the opening line of verse for the day. It pierced my conscience with a deep wound. I was right in the middle of a deep pity party and now its ruined. How can I go on with my whining now in the face of the truth?

God will not ask you to do anything which you are incapable of doing. I might like to face the truth at times, but it is for my own good and the good of my relations with others. But I was so enjoying my moment of good whine. Why did He have to go and ruin it?

Oh, yes, that right, I asked Him to be the Lord of my life. He has the power and authority. I gave myself over to Him, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I should not be amazed that He should choose this moment to exert authority. Amazed perhaps, but not surprised. Amazed because He cares that much.

I do not know what this day will bring. He does. I do not know what my attitude will do towards the day, He does. I have no idea if a blessing or a tribulation will occur today, He does.

Romans 8:28b all things work together for good to them that love God,

Since I believe that by faith, then I should act like it is true and embrace the day knowing that my God loves me enough to say, “Quit your whining and get up.”

OK, OK I’m up.

“Lose the attitude.”

Yes, my Lord.

Galatians 5:19 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

On my webpage is a work called “Walking in the Spirit”. In it I have tried to describe what I know about walking in the spirit. It is roughly fifteen thousand words. Nowhere in that descriptive dialogue can I find one example of how to do it.

I had hoped that it would be a roadmap to walking in the spirit. I find that it is woefully short of my expectations. It is full of quotes from the bible. It is full of information I have collected as I experienced God.

When a baby learns to walk, you cannot tell them what to do. They either have a desire to walk or they do not. Some take to being encouraged, others do not. Some refuse to stay sitting and take every opportunity to pull themselves up and try to walk, even before their little bodies are ready.

Is it possible that walking in the spirit is like a baby learning how to walk? That the Holy Spirit takes us by the hand and helps us walk without words or instruction, but takes the supportive role in our desires to walk in the spirit? Can you walk in the spirit and not be aware of it, just as you give very little thought to the process of walking, you just get up and do it.

I look to this passage in Galatians and know that Christ is still in my life event though I still sin. 1 John 1:8 tells me that I have sin, and to deny that fact is to be deceived. So is the absence of “lust of the flesh” a true sign of walking in the spirit or me deceiving myself yet once again?

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.