Journey Day 137

Confession. I talk to God in the car... like every day. I know I know, I'm weird. But God and I have the best conversations in the car. I don't mean that God audibly speaks to me, I just mean that while I'm driving I can just pour my heart out to God, sometimes it's bargaining, sometimes it's pleading, sometimes it's praising and thanking and then sometimes it's just talking. But at the end I always feel encouraged, I feel like He was actually listening to me. And you know what? He actually was! How amazing is that?? I'm reading this book by Francis Chan that is called "Forgotten God", and it's about "reversing the neglect of the Holy Spirit", and one thing I read today was about how as Christians, we have the Holy Spirit inside of us, He dwells within us, and is a part of our every day. Again I say, how amazing is that?? Part of the three in one, wants to be a part of us, all we have to do is invite Him in. I grew up going to church, I always knew that I have the Holy Spirit, but I never really thought about what that means. It means that God is always with us, like when I'm in the car singing along to praise music, and pouring out my heart to the lover of my soul. "You are not just a person living your life by human power. The Spirit of God is in you; that is why Jesus said it was better for Him to go and the Spirit to come." God chose us to be His dwelling place, and I think that is something that we tend to take lightly. We don't think about how heavy that really is. Because the reality is that the Spirit is always with us, we don't have to let our difficulties and our pain define our day. We can be encouraged by the fact that where we fail in our human nature, God steps up to the plate and turns our pain into beauty. So when I am sitting in the car, and I am talking to my savior, not only is He listening and loving me, He is dwelling within me. I pray that that this knowledge will inspire me to live a life worthy of that honor. That my life will reflect that love that God so graciously pours into me. I know that I fall short, but my goal is to be a woman after God's own heart.