Walking in the Spirit is a daily challenge as well as opportunity. For the longest time I thought it was a matter of living my usual life with a prayer injected along the way. Otherwise, it was business as usual; except the business was church.
Yet, walking in the Spirit is much more. It is an eye-opener. No, I mean it really is. Jesus urged Nicodemus to be born again that he might see the kingdom of God. The apostle Paul prayed that our eyes would be opened to see the power and riches and glory of God.
To engage in seeing God's desires for an of us, we must consciously engage via faith in the super-natural. We are called to step up into an entirely new realm and level of believing. Walking is not to be done by flesh-sight but by Spirit-sight...which is faith.
Francis Schaeffer wrote years ago, First, then, are the heavenlies, according to Scriptures, a long way off? Is the supernatural world remote? The answer is very decidedly, "No." The Mount of Transfiguration makes it very, very plain that the supernatural world is not a long way off.
And then he makes a direct hit when he points out, Speaking of Christ on the Emmaus road, Luke wrote: "And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight."
Eyes were opened. They knew him.
I am continually challenged by this process. I remain too inclined to surmise what another is saying or doing from my flesh eyes. The Spirit walk is an eye-opener because it launches us into a zone of wonder which is never far away.
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