Ridin’ til the Wheels Fall Off

Somebody told me that two days ago.  They said, “you’re not leavin’ huh Brian.  You’re ridin’ til the wheels fall off.”

Faithfulness.  Doing what the Lord says no matter what the circumstances.  Even when it feels like you’re making the wheels fall off.  You keep riding.  Keep doing what the Lord has already said and He can say more.  Then He doesn’t need to repeat Himself.   When it gets old you trust that He will show you what’s next.  There is no shortcut in the desert.  One way… the Way, the Truth and the Life.  Nobody gets to the Father except through Him.  Want to find the Father?  Listen to the Son.  Can’t hear the Son?  Find Him.  Seek ye first.  Go where He is.  Find where the fruit of the Holy Spirit is and get to know it.  How it smells, looks, feels.  Learn how to cultivate it.  Bring seeds home and plant them into your own life.  When the harvest is ready, eat it.  Taste and see the Lord is good.

“But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.  The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Against such things there is no law.  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.  Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.  Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.” Galatians 5:18-26