“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God” Eph4.30 ESV
Most of us, most of the time, could measure if our intended actions are good and right and true by simply running them past our mothers. If what we intend to do is not good and right and true a good mother will disapprove and be saddened by it. Of course mothers are infected with the same disease as the rest of us and therefore there are bad mothers. But own the whole a mother’s instinct can usually be trusted to determine is something is not good for her children. I think the Holy Spirit uses mothers to restrain people from a good many sinful actions. Our mothers are not always with us, and so the Holy Spirit uses any number of internal and external influences to give us guidance. The voice of doubt has been used many times in my own experience. Christ told us that if we being evil know how to give good things to our children how much more will the Father give the Holy Spirit to all who ask. Each of us should not only ask for the Holy Spirit, we should fine tune our sensitivities to His voice in and around us. Run it past mother most of the time, but listen to the Holy Spirit all of the time. 5/24/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
