Reflections
Governed by the Spirit
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Rom 8:14)
Paul is not here talking about LEADINGS. He is not saying that if you are a child of God that God is going to continually feed you information and directions. It isn’t that God never speaks to us, or that God doesn’t lead us, but this isn’t what Paul is talking about. The translation should be, “For as many as are GOVERNED by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
To be governed by the Spirit of God is to be governed by the life and knowledge of Jesus Christ – for that is what Jesus said the Spirit would do: Testify, glorify, and lead us into the Truth of Christ. If I am governed by the Christ through His Spirit, I will know His will, and will know what is the Truth and what is error.
It would be a shallow Christianity if we merely got directions from God but did not know God Himself. And yet a focus on leadings often leaves us shallow. God may lead us. But His real purpose is that we know Jesus and live FROM out of Him by faith as our very life.
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