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Don’t Google it - Holy Spirit it

What a diamond piece of wise advice this is. Don’t Google it - Holy Spirit it. Our Pastor said this in the middle of his sermon last Sunday. We spend so much time doing instant things like Google where you get 9 million responses in about half a second, or so they say, but we hardly ever spend time locked in our quiet place with Holy Spirit asking Him the same questions.

It comes down to us seeking God in all things rather than just allowing Him to comment on one or two things about which we are ambivalent anyway. We so often seem to take important decisions for ourselves, then we go to God for His approval. The real trouble then is that we tend to ignore any input He may wish to make – we just don’t listen and we don’t really want to hear what He has to say.

I like the story of the man who went to a financial advisor. He sat and listened attentively for an hour than said, “OK, thanks for your advice, but I’ve already decided to do it my own  way!” The man threw away good advice in favour of his own thoughts which had already brought him to the verge of bankruptcy. We do the same with much of God’s advice. We ignore Him and continue on the path that has already led us into problem after problem because God’s advice doesn’t fit into our framework of thinking.

The moral of this is not to ask Holy Spirit for advice unless you are prepared to follow His leading. It’s no good waiting for the ‘right moment’ to agree with Him, because the right moment is now otherwise why would He advise you at all. It’s not for next week, it is ‘now’ advice. We have been so used to Googling the problem and being told where to find the answer. That leaves the door wide open to the solutions not even being looked at, let alone being ignored thereafter.

"If you wait for perfect conditions, you'll never get anything done!" Ecclesiastes 11:4 (LB)