Holy Spirit Abuse
Early on in my time as a Christian I used to talk fairly regularly to a friend about God, the church and living a “Christian” life. I don’t do that anymore really. Life takes people in different directions and gives them different priorities. During one of our conversations she brought up the subject of following the lead of the holy spirit and allowing the holy spirit to guide her through her day. So I described how I manage getting ready in the morning and said that if there is a machine that I am running I start that and then go do something else that needs to be done. She said I should follow the Holy Spirit for even that and that maybe God didn’t want me to start that machine first. What that said to me is that I was wrong and needed to follow the Holy Spirit, puppet-like through my day. I think I might have tried this process once and felt after a few minutes like it was a silly, useless, pseudo-spiritual mental exercise and I never did it again. What’s the point of being raised by parents if all we’re supposed to do in life is suspend common sense and everything we’ve been taught about living and tap into some sort of Holy Spirit carrier wave? I’ve been dressing myself since I was about 5. I can look around my house and see when the washer needs to be run and I can manage doing the laundry pretty well on my own. I don’t need the Holy Spirit to tell me that stuff. I’m not going to go throughout my day like a human police scanner waiting for heavenly signals before I do basic things I know need to be done every day. I cannot say that I understand the concept of the “still, small, voice.” I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have anything to do with waiting to be told to put your drawers on then your socks or your socks on then your drawers.
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