Who are you partnered with today? Are you partnered with anyone? What is your view of partnership? Will you only partner with someone you agree with? Are you willing to partner with someone who will correct you? Will you partner with someone who will guide you?
Partnerships we experience during our lives can be finicky. Some only last a few weeks or months. Others may last a lifetime. Those that last require give and take from both sides. To be a successful partnership, it requires respect for one another and a willingness to listen.
We have been given the Holy Spirit by God. Just a good partnership requires listening, so does our partnership with the Holy Spirit. He is constantly listening to us, but are we listening to him? Each one of us must answer that question for ourselves. We are to not only be aware the Holy Spirit is always with us but to listen for his guidance as we walk through life.
The Holy Spirit is an onboard teacher for us. He instructs us in the ways of God. He explains the meaning of God’s Word. He guides us along the path we should go, if we are willing to listen and follow. It is not to be a one way partnership, though many of us may view it that way. Think not? Do we only pray for what we want? Or do we listen while we pray for God’s guidance? The answers we provide to those questions indicate how much of a partnership we have with the Holy Spirit. It is by being in partnership with the Holy Spirit that we live the abundant life Jesus promised us.
I pray we all choose to be in equal partnership with the Holy Spirit. I pray we know the Holy Spirit is always with us. I pray each one of us will commit to listening to the Holy Spirit and following his guidance.
Matthew 28:19-20a “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.”
Marty Pressey 