Rhythm

Our faith is living, active, and restless. It reminds me of music... and I love music. God only knows who I would be without the feel of six strings in my hand or the release of my voice in song. But music only works when everything arrives together in unison. There has to be a constant; something that everything else looks to for rhythm. In a band, it's the drummer. In an orchestra, it's the conductor. In our faith it's the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit beats inside of us with a deep, slow, rhythm, guiding the wayward parts of our heart back in sync with the movement he longs for us to follow. When we submit our hearts to the Holy Spirit we grow in our knowledge of the power God has put inside us all to rise above the pit of despair we often believe we deserve to live in. That power, when engaged, reveals the world as God sees it, propelling us beyond the view of the world we often get trapped in.

We must intentionally recognize that the Holy Spirit is active inside of us. We must feed it with prayer, the reading of God's Word, and with spiritual disciplines that strip away everything else that hides God's voice.