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Spiritual Rhythm
Walking in Step with the Spirit
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
Many Christians believe that the key to serving God
faithfully is to seek a good balance between work, play, and
worship.
They feel that those who attain this balance will be
filled with much spiritual fruit.
As we have already seen in the
prior four sermons none of the seasons are inherently balanced
nor do they require the same response.
Solomon was correct in
stating there is a season for
everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
In all its brokenness, pain, and
suffering winter is one of the
best times to pray, prune that
which bears little or no fruit,
wait upon the Lord to seek and
know His will, and to reflect
on those things unseen.
In all
its newness, growth, and
splendor Spring is the perfect
time to listen attentively to the
Lord and plow new fields, plant new spiritual seeds of
righteousness, and clean the inside of the cup of one’s soul.
In
all its fruit, warmth, light, rest, play, wonder, festival, joy,
reunion, and holidays Summertime is the perfect time to seek the
kingdom of God, and to gather in the first fruits of blessings.
And Fall is the perfect time to bring in the lost, to thank God for
one’s prosperity, and to become right in His sight.
Basking in its
harvests Fall tends to be the perfect time to memorize God’s
word and to ask Him to search one’s heart so that one might
know and confess one’s sins.
Since every season has different spiritual
activities that excel during their times, what
we truly need is not balance but rhythm.
Though every season be different, our attitude towards the Lord
must remain the same.
This series is going to conclude by
discussing six things that will help us in any season to keep a
spiritual rhythm that honors God!
Abiding
To first thing one can do to keep a good spiritual rhythm
is abide in Christ!
In John 15:5 Jesus tells us, “I am the vine;
you are the branches.
If you remain in Me and I in you, you will
bear much fruit; apart from Me
you can do nothing.”
Whether
one be in the cold, dark, painful
winter or basking in the harvests
of the Fall; the key to honoring
the Lord is in all that we think or
do, to remain the vine!
Being “in
Christ” means our identities,
abilities, and destinies (208) are shaped by the One who gave His
life so that the branches, i.e., believers, might have the
opportunity to be transformed into His glorious image.
“We are
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saints in Christ.
We are confident in Christ.
We are called
heavenward in Christ.
We stand firm in Christ, rejoice in Him,
hope in Him, agree in Him, glory in Him, are found in Him, are
guarded, heart and mind, in Him, have all our needs met in Him,
and welcome others in Him” (208).
No matter what season that
one goes through without life in the vine one simply cannot bear
fruit … even in the fall seasons of life!
While we can all produce
something in any season without Christ it will be fruit that does
not last or worse, yet it does, and we wish we could get rid of it
(209)!
Apart from Christ we can do nothing but can
do everything through Him who strengthens
me (Philippians 4:13).
If we are to live for
Jesus with integrity, not duplicity, then we
simply must take every word, thought, or
deed captive to the One who gives us
branches life.
To keep our service from being nothing more than filthy rags of
pretend righteousness then the roots of our efforts must be deeply
entrenched in His word, grace, and mercy!
And to remain in the
vine, we must pray without ceasing, “search me O Lord and
when find sin in me give me the courage to repent and keep my
heart utterly dependent on You!”
(Matthew 6:33).
Those who are intimate with the King,
faithfully and joyfully serve in His kingdom.
They are not
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