What about within?

Romans 8:22-23 

22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 

23 Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

 

What about within?

 

A look at spiritual gifts ... let’s say speech and knowledge.

These gifts are an outside matter but what about within?

That is really the only matter that measures the Eternal

and secures you for the Place where others might have been.

 

Is not real advancement measured by growth in spirit?

Is not intuition the gauge of that progress?

Is not exercising the issue of life’s appearance

an intellectual mindset and an expansion of the flesh?

 

Maturity in Christ is like a constant hunger.

It takes all of the spirit to bring that Godliness.

It cannot be compared with what the soul produces

for that has been declared as religiousness.

 

I cannot help others unless I commune with God.

If I don’t have that ability what would be the use?

I can’t have any ideas and all would be futility

for what could be utility if the Spirit is not there?

 

Jan Wienen

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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