09/19/2025
CONSTANT COMMUNION
If we have been born again/indwelt by the Holy Spirit, then God lives in us. Our life should now center upon Him. We are being conformed to the image of Christ. He is being formed more and more in us. The end result must be more and more communion with Him, not just in times of crisis or difficulty. Not just in church, in devotional time, or in prayer, but 24/7/365 moment by moment. It is so very easy to get distracted and caught up in the things of this world. It is easy to be led astray. It is easy to be deceived. It is easy to commit idolatry. Jesus said that we are to be "in the world, but not of the world." We are without excuse for God Himself/the Holy Spirit is literally and supernaturally dwelling within us.
"I have to make an effort to keep my conscience so sensitive that I obey that which I perceive to be God's will. I have to be so keen in the scent of the Lord, so sensitive to the tiniest touch of his Spirit, that I know what I should do. If I keep my soul inwardly open to God, then when I come in contact with the affairs of life outside, I know immediately what I should do. I should be living in such perfect sensitiveness to God, in such perfect sympathy with his Son that in every circumstance I am in, the spirit of my mind is renewed, and I prove, that is, make out, what is God's will, the thing that is good, and acceptable, and perfect. The sensitive conscience of the Christian is realized in the ordinary things of life, the humdrum things. We are apt to think of conscience only in connection with something outrageous. The sensitiveness of the conscience is maintained by the habit of always being open toward God. At the peril of your soul, you allow one thing to obscure your inner communion with God. Drop it, whatever it is, and see that you keep your inner vision clear."
~Oswald Chambers
