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| God is Accustomed to My Face !! |
In “My fair lady” the song “Accustomed to his face” has the lines “Are second nature to me now, like breathing out and breathing in.
When your baby is first born
you look adoringly at every bit of them. Then as time goes by you don’t have
the same urge to focus on them for you are so familiar with them. They grow up
and only when they are not there, do you miss them.
One custom that every mom
and/or dad should do is to take their children’s face in your hands and look
into their eyes for a few seconds, this moment of bonding will last for a
lifetime.
Being accustomed to a person
at times can cause a relationship to become “a run of the mill” relational but
with a faded intimacy. This is not to say that there is anything wrong with
being comfortable with one another; in other words; be able to ”let your hair
down.” Doing marriage people do things they wouldn’t have done before the
wedding day.
As I was thinking (musing)
about some of the previous posts I wrote concerning the indwelling Holy Spirit,
I began to wonder if I had become to accustom to the presence of Him to the
point of taking His presence for granted?
Was being too accustomed to His
presence lessened His impact on His indwelling in me. There is a difference in being comfortable
with someone and an acceptance with indifference of their personage.
I recalled the time when I
was first born again, when His Spirit only was convicting me of my sin and then
the difference when He came in to stay, how real His presence was. It is a realty I can’t afford to lose and so I
must not let my lethargic nature dull my spiritual sense of his presence.
Ephesians.4:30 And do not bring sorrow to
God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his
own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.
Charles Finney; You see why so many persons often pray
for the influences of the Holy Spirit and yet do not receive his influences. It
may be and doubtless often is because they have grieved him entirely away.
Your entire spiritual life
depends upon the ministry of the Holy Spirit’s interaction within you and if He
is prevented by your rejecting His leading then there is little more He can do
but withdraw until you as Finney says; “Let us see wherein we have been and are
grieving the Holy Spirit.
And now let us all go down
upon our knees, and confess our infinite guilt, in having, in so many ways and
for so long a time, grieved the Holy Spirit.”
I saw/heard Andre Crouch years ago here in town at our church... 1974, as I recall. And the word you shared through him was a good piece to connect. Thank you for sharing your story and the song.
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