Chase the Setting Sun...

If there is one thing I've learned in the last week its that the Holy Spirit does not make things easy on us. Following Christ is hard, its very hard. Following Christ doesn't always make things easy, it doesn't always make us happy, it doesn't always make us friends, sometimes it even makes us enemies.

Jesus was a pro at not following the path of least resistance. When he thought that people were trashing his Father's house (temple) he went in and overturned tables and chewed everyone out. He foresaw that he would be beaten, spit on, and nailed to a tree and he still followed his call, all the way to death.

We need to stop looking for the Spirit in all the easy places. If we follow the Spirit we're bound to stumble, we're bound to fall. We are going to look crazy, we are going to anger people. When people think they are doing everything right and take pride in themselves, then get a glimpse of the Spirit, they get angry.

It is so hard to honestly, fully, follow the Holy Spirit. A lot of us think we are, but if we really sit down and re-evaluate what the Spirit is leading us to do, I think we'd be shocked to find that we might not be following the Spirit as much as we thought.