Holy Spirit cleanse my soul to do, not all that I can, but what You will...

 
Genesis 11:1-9 & Acts 28:16-31

 
Made in the image of God as we are, human kind can do extraordinary things! Early civilizations devised complex languages and nearly inconceivable technologies to deal with the environments they lived in – consider the cultures of the desert, the arctic, peoples of the ocean and everything in between. In this present digital age with its exploding AI capabilities pointed beyond quantum mechanics to the energy of black holes, and particle acceleration (the so-called god-particle) the sky is the limit, let alone the universe. When the city of Babel was built, God intervened for the sake of humankind:”Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they will be able to do. Let us go down and mix up their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. Today, although we human beings are doing our best to keep the trajectory of human development ‘regulated’, like the peoples of ancient time, we too need the mystery of God’s will in the form of ‘mix-ups’ and disruptions - and the Word of God, translated so faithfully into a wide variety of languages, to guide us into His ways of wisdom and peace. Will I spend my life doing ‘all that I can’, or lean into the Word and the Will of God like Paul and all the saints through the ages?  Holy Spirit, cleanse my soul to do, not all that I can, but what You will. 
        
The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. .(Psalm 19: 9)  
 
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie ten Boom
 
Listen to Here I Am, Lord  By John Michael Talbot  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxOkht8w7c
 
Soli ad gloriam Dei
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