Daily writing prompt

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

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Little children experience pure joy. You can see true happiness shining on their faces as they spontaneously play. Yet as we grow toward adulthood that joy is slowly toned down until it is mostly lost. It’s as if there is a subconscious law in adults that prevents us from innocent, spontaneous joy. I’d like to change that law because it definitely doesn’t come from God. “The joy of the Lord is my strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10)

When Faces Shine

When someone learns to grow and flow with God the Holy Spirit his or her face begins to glow. I love to be face-to-face with people when they are worshipping God in the Spirit. (John 4:24) I can literally see the light of God on their face. That’s why I like to worship with people in a circle instead of in rows.

Unfortunately, people usually want a veil between them and the glory of God. That’s why when Moses’ face was shining with God’s glory after being with the Lord on Mt. Sinai, he put a veil over his face. (Exodos 34:29-35)

The Bible says that Christians shouldn’t veil the glory of God on their face (2 Corinthians 3:18) The religious leaders of the Jewish Sanhedrin were lying about and judging Stephen claiming that because he was passionately in love with Jesus that he wanted to change what Moses had taught. Instead of anger or fear on Stephen’s face, they saw his face shining like an angel’s. (Acts 6:15) When Christians avoid, veil, or hide the glory of God they quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19)

Stephen’s face glowed because he was led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14) not by human planning or programming. He wasn’t speaking programmed words. Instead, he spoke the wisdom that the Spirit was giving him in the very moment he was talking. (Acts 6:10)

Moses’ face glowed because he experienced the glory of God as he taught and ministered about the law. Writing about that Paul asks a rhetorical question: “Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? (2 Corinthians 3:7-8) Of course it will.

As Christ-followers we are invited to experience even more glory. If we are not, then we are somehow off track and grieving the Holy Spirit. (Ephesians 4:30)

I have found that the most effective way to live and grow and glow as a disciple of Christ is to follow and obey God the Holy Spirit and the Bible throughout each day. It is to live in humble heart-to-heart connection with other people who are doing the same.

Let’s persistently turn away from the ministry of human wisdom and understanding (2 Timothy 3:5) to the ministry of the Spirit (John 14:26) until our faces glow with God’s presence. Let’s all begin to “speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.” (1 Corinthians 2:13)

God the Spirit
Isn’t feelings.
He’s objective
Not subjective.
Let Him lead you
In all you do.

Community
Is face-to-face
Not just being
In the same place.
It’s heart-to-heart,
Being a part
Of each other.
True unity
Is Spirit-led
With Christ as Head
Not just hearing
Religious words
And forgetting
What you’ve heard.

God the Holy Spirit
Wants to lead and guide us.
His voice is powerful.
How we need to hear it.