Are You Living at Large (part 2)

"Jesus said that the Holy Spirit leads "into all truth."  Not up to truth, but into it.  How many of us have heard His voice speaking into such areas of life need, felt the conviction that His voice brings, resolved that we were going to act upon it, enter into it, yet in the end, remained in the exact same spiritual place?  We come up to the truth, but we don't enter into it.  We have good intentions, awareness of the need, even of what He desires for us, yet, a little time passes and there we are, still wrestling with the same problem, the same lack, the same sin.  We go on living at large, outside of, His will, His way, and His life.  We've gotten very comfortable there, and if we can deal with the occasional tweak of our conscience, we can eventually come to the place where we don't hear His voice, His truth at all.  We become hardened to it.  Small wonder then that so many of us can return to church services week after week, "hear" the same word preached and taught week after week, and yet continue to live at large from Him.  Just like the world."  ~ Pastor Gary O'Shell