Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit

   



     Recently, my sister, Treasa, mailed me a bookmark with the words of Charles F. Stanley--"Today and Every Day God Loves You Without Hesitation."  Moments before I received the bookmark in the mail, I was reading I Corinthians 13.  I sent a text to Treasa to let her know of the experience.  She wrote back, "That's how I feel that God speaks to us.  It's not just a coincidence.  It's God trying to open our eyes to something.  We just need to be sensitive to what [H]e's trying to tell us."

      Since yesterday, I felt the Holy Spirit was speaking to me through the hymn, "Come, Thou Fount" by Robert Robinson, but what was He trying to say to me.  Last night I was touched by the depiction of Robert Robinson's life shown above.  Still, I was not clear on what God was trying to say to me.  This morning, I opened a book loaned to me by Reverend Margaret Zeller for the ordination discernment process called Amazing Grace; A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris.  On the page after the table of contents were the words, "O to grace how great a debtor..."  Robert R[obinson]--"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."  All sources that I have seen have the last name as Robinson as opposed to Robertson as written on the page.  In any event, I sensed that God was trying to tell me something.

     Taking Treasa's advice and being sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is trying to tell me, I found that I am to have no regrets in pursuing God's call.  The regret will come if I turn to the world.  I am to seek God's Kingdom first (Matthew 6:33).  Therefore, as written in the final verse and final stanza of "Come, Thou Fount"--"Here's my heart, O take and seal it; seal it for Thy courts above.  Amen."