I have found my life easily gets filled with worldly things even when trying to follow Christ. It seems there are two ways - two wisdoms - one appeals to our desires but is not from God - then there is another wisdom that comes into our lives at times from God that comes in the form of spirit and appeals not really to our desires but appeals to what seems to be some part of us called spirit that only wakes up when our hearts respond to the gospel that Christ died for us. This wisdom or way of living from God is such that it can get swamped by worldly wisdom not from God because our desires are strong - so we have to spend time filling ourselves with it deliberately to give it power and top spot in our lives and that means acting on it whenever we can and never letting it get forgotten. We can help eachother do this but if nobody is there to help we can still do it ourselves. There were hardly any things I could say were workings of the Spirit from God in my life but sometimes there have been so I keep focussing on them and they seem to surge back to life when I do. Scriptures are hard to understand but sometimes the Holy Spirit helps so the our hearts are sometimes opened to understand the scriptures and we can reflect on such understanding over and over whenever we can. Doing what God teaches is sometimes possible if we are ready so staying ready is important but often we have no opportunity so when one comes along we should make it count.
