Give Up; Lean In
- heartsinger1
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min read
"Give up your attachment to everything; live a life in which there is nothing you want." Guyon
Have you ever wondered how to live in pure contentment?
Guyon offers the solution:
"Let God do in you what He will."
That sounds simple but it's against every cell in our bodies. We are creatures of self-preservation, self- awareness, and self-service. It's what keeps us alive.
Unfortunately, self often chooses to settle for the good, when yielding to God's mysterious ways, would usher in the best.
Our prayers need to evolve from petition to permission. It's through the power of the Holy Spirit, and yielding our prayers to His utterance, we find the key.
"But hope means that we must trust and wait for what is still unseen. For why would we need to hope for something we already have? So because our hope is set on what is yet to be seen, we patiently keep on waiting for its fulfillment.
And in a similar way, the Holy Spirit takes hold of us in our human frailty to empower us in our weakness. For example, at times we don’t even know how to pray, or know the best things to ask for. But the Holy Spirit rises up within us to super-intercede on our behalf, pleading to God with emotional sighs too deep for words.
God, the searcher of the heart, knows fully our longings, yet he also understands the desires of the Spirit, because the Holy Spirit passionately pleads before God for us, his holy ones, in perfect harmony with God’s plan and our destiny."
Romans 8 24b-27, The Passion Translation
Here are the voices vying to be heard:
God's will vs our will
God's plan vs our plan
Holy Spirit prayers vs our prayers
If we yield, God accepts our own workings and give us His in their place.
A glorious exchange!
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