Thoughts On Sunday

A pretty exciting thought has been floating around in my head all day and as I was reading tonight, it came across my mind again. But this time I was so excited that I had to share it.

 These past few months my church Cornerstone has been going through 1st Corinthians. As we continue to read and Tony Hall continues to preach each Sunday, I get the notion that I am enjoying this book more than what I ever have before. But the scripture that was so astounding to me this morning was…

1st Corinthians 2:9-12

But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

I am completely astonished. The same Spirit that searches and understands the depths of The One and Only God, The God of the Universe, is dwelling inside of me? How undeserving and unworthy I am, yet I am loved by a Holy God. A God that ordained His Son to die on a cross, to credit me with His righteousness and He still doesn't stop there. God knew that my flesh would fail, so He gave me His Spirit to convict and move me. Now that I have received that Spirit I want to do nothing more but obey and wholly surrender to it.

"I want nothing more than to live in total surrender and abandonment to the Spirit every moment I have left on this earth... I don't want my life to be explainable apart from the Spirit" 
-Francis Chan