The temptation for the believer is to look without instead of within. Biographies of great saints are great. Sermons are great. They become a problem when we take what is said and try to apply it to our life like plugging in numbers to a formula in order to solve a physics equation. Life in the Spirit is not like this.

I am not you, and you are not me. I have a different daily routine, different responsibilities, different human relationships, different resources all specific to me, and so do you.

We can go after God trying to make Him do for us as we would like. Or we can sit and wait for Him to come to us. Pursue us. Lead us. Guide us.

This takes trust. And I have to admit, I am not there–yet. I want to be there. Sometimes I think I am, but sometimes I fall back into the religious mindset of cause and effect–sowing and reaping. But if that is religion, then what does life in the Spirit look like?

I think it looks more like Sonship. It looks like resting in the knowledge that I am a Son, that I am loved unconditionally. My only responsibilities are to do as I see my Father doing and speak only as my Father speaks. My privilege is His provision for all my needs, for all that belongs to the Father is mine.