Spiritual Common Sense

Do you know how some people have common sense and others do not?
Maybe they are book smart but not street smart...all these qualities transfer over into the spiritual too.
Some people are "by the book" meaning the bible in the literal sense, and some people are more reliant on the lead of the Holy Spirit.
Some spiritual in-tune people have spiritual common sense and some do not.

Do not be discouraged if you feel you do not have spiritual common sense.
I think it is something you can tap into, to train yourself at, unlike regular common sense I don't think it is something you HAVE or DO NOT HAVE.

The importance of being in tune...of defaulting to the Truth at any given time, to recognize where you are spiritually and where you WANT to be or rather where you are headed, is all a part of it.
So is being aware of others and being aware of how you let them effect you and how you in turn effect them.
I would describe being spiritual aware as being fully awake, or fully alive.
There is such power in that!

We are taking in so much information constantly, choosing to be selective or to bombard ourselves and with the Internet. Our options are endless and fast and maybe too fast....
Having spiritual common sense is to be aware of the balance that exists within yourself, it is being able to tell if you are off balance because you can FEEL the pull to one side or another. The more in-tune you are,
the more sensitive you are to the slightest degree of movement.

I joke that it is like becoming the Jedi Master of your mind,
but really it is allowing God in to do the Jedi work in you.
It is in the surrendering action of all the crap going on in your life and admitting that it isn't in your power to sort out.
God never intended you to do any of the work in your life alone, and without Him.
If He designed it that way from the very beginning then it makes sense that we feel so out of control and helpless in the midst of going at it alone!
Even when we realize this truth we still fall back into those fleshy patterns....but I am telling you, if you can get to a point where you are so aware of your self...
your feelings, your patterns, your default to crying or whining or complaining, or playing the victim...whatever it might be,
it will eventually GLARE at you when it pops up, becoming so spiritually self-aware will seperate all that is not of God from what is! It will be as obvious as the way oil sits at the top of water and will not mix.

God is amazing....He whispers these truths to me as I am driving or doing the most simple of tasks and getting me to zero in on something He wants highlighted.
I am amazed at how what He gives to me to say effects other people and I feel such purpose and drive in sharing.
If I have blessed you because God just blessed me, then I want you to know how happy that makes me inside.
Like turning up the gas on my stove so that the flame burns brighter and brighter....and the most awesome thing about that is the endless resources of the tank....
no refills necessary for the Holy Spirit....
His love just burns and burns and burns!
Amen!

~C


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