Holy Ghost "Pop-Ups"

Holy Ghost Pop-Ups…
Mary Ann Wray



While working the other day  and getting very frustrated with firewalls preventing applications from opening quickly without getting a pop up, I rebooted several times but the pop ups kept re-appearing. Rebooting didn't make them disappear either. Finally, I took a break and God showed me something! 

I can frustrate the grace of God the same way. Every time He tries to open up a truth to me about my soul that I need to address and crucify, I can react in many different ways rather than patiently seek Him in the frustration and get some understanding.

I can get angry, divert the truth and say it's for somebody else, get defensive about it, shift the blame to a close relative or friend, even deny it exists altogether and even try to 'spiritualize' why I react this way! His Holy Spirit "Pop-Ups" come in a variety of ways. Whether it's through correction, a sermon, something we read, or hear, a person's reaction/ interaction with us etc., we can frustrate the grace of God and Spirit of Truth through a bunch of defense mechanisms like putting up our own firewall against Him.

Getting defensive enough times is like rebooting the system but it doesn't change the fact that the pop ups are still going to come; it only delays the process of the Holy Spirit working in the inner man. All of these defense mechanisms and self-protective walls are a fleshly attempt to 'save our life' when Jesus said we need to lose it! What I try to save really needs to die. When it dies, I’m saved! The Father is ever so patient and long-suffering with us!


“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” John 14: 16-18
  
"But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16: 13

 

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