From the Edges – Morning Devotions – Holy Spirit Clothing

From the Edges – Morning Devotions

Pastor Calvin Cook – May 20, 2024

Holy Spirit clothing –

Scripture focus – Judges 6:33-35

English Standard Version

33 Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel. 34 But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him. 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.

As the battle was raging on, it wasn’t a battle against boundaries, power, or wealth. It was a battle between what was right and wrong. It was a battle where the people of God were called to make a decision to leave the evil of the world and false worship behind and move into following the direction of the Lord.

We seem to be doing many things to move us forward in our earthly desires, but what about the desires that move us forward in our reflection to what God is calling us to. I know that many people have plans for others. We seek to have others do what we would have them do but for whose glory. The glory of our early desires or for the glory of God.

In the light of eternity are we shaped by God’s call or our own desires for someone else. Most of the time we ask someone else to do something that we don’t want to do ourselves. Or something we want done that we can’t do. We try to model people to look and act and be the way we by our earthly mind want them to be, but is that God’s desire?  God doesn’t need any more micro managers; God needs committed servant leadership.

God empowered Gideon amidst some very difficult times to lead a battle that would bring the people back to the main thing. Gideon was clothed in the Spirit of the Lord. In the battle that we are fighting is it for the glory of the Lord or the glory of self. Have we accepted the power of God by being clothed in the Holy Spirit.

Remember the words from the Lord’s prayer “Thy will be done”. Are we living into those words and accepting them to bring the kingdom of God to the very forefront of our lives.