SOAP Devotions

WE HAVE THE CHOICE

SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 1:7 “Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.”

OBSERVATION: If we are eagerly waiting and are tapped into the Spirit, partaking of the Tree of Life daily, we won’t be without the work of the Holy Spirit, the spiritual gifts. On the other hand, if we are not doing these things and we are lacking in spiritual gifts and not seeing good fruit in our life, where are we tapped into? Our own desires?

Do we want to be living from our own flesh, partaking of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or do we want to partake from the Tree of Life, being sustained and empowered daily by the Holy Spirit? Our default, go-to setting is to go by our flesh because of the actions of Adam and Eve, which birthed us into sin. But when we receive Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we are granted access to the Tree of Life. We now have the choice of which tree we partake of; a tension we will carry until Christ returns.

APPLICATION: Every day, I will choose to follow the direction of the Holy Spirit, who reveals to me the will of the Father, and partake of the Tree of Life. If I don’t make this choice, I will default to following my flesh; discerning right and wrong through the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

PRAYER: Father help me to surrender to the Holy Spirit's will and direction always. Amen.