“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are Children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a Spirit of Adoption.” ~ Paul (Romans 8:14-15)

 

First of all, to be “led by the Spirit of God” is not (as Paul would have us believe) to be mentally influenced by inspirations “from above” or to be divinely intervened upon by a force from “on high” …

No, to be truly “led by the Spirit of God” is to cease looking outside ourselves for Guidance, and to listen instead to the Heart within … For in truth we are all Children of God in waiting; we all have the golden Spirit of God within us from birth. And all that remains for us to do is dismiss the whispered fears of our self and the mumbled desires of our friends and the droning expectations of our culture in order to DO what needs to be Done — using what is already at hand — for those already closest by.

 

That is all that is required for us to awaken to being a Child of God once more – to “become again as a child” — by revering life, to revere life by revering others, and to revere others by acting accordingly. This is what it means to reject the “spirit of slavery” (i.e. our slavery to the whims of ego), and this is what it means to “receive the Spirit of Adoption” (i.e. by adopting others as one’s own).

 

Amen … Let it be so.

 

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