The Holy Spirit is Always Ready

E358 Heaven Land Devotions - The Holy Spirit is Always Ready
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For a while now the talk of "getting ready" is the ticket of conversation among Christian circles. Yet what I have been personally experiencing is well intentioned, sincere Christians falling down under the weight of "getting ready." They set out on a some kind of new course to spiritually prepare themselves right away because of the knowledge of the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

Now let me pause for a moment to say there is an expectation I believe that the Lord has that we all stop and become spiritually sober. Where we honestly take a good look at our lives as we walk along the narrow road. Taking the proper thorough steps of "examining ourselves to see if we be in the faith." But the reality is God does not expect us to stay in that same place of constant check-listing faults and minute failures. This is what is causing many Believers to fall down under the weight of self imposed burdens they have heaped upon themselves that God never intended for them. The end result is they lose joy, the happy confidence in Jesus Christ, and condemn themselves as unworthy, and saying things like, "Well, I hope when Christ comes again He will let me go with Him."

In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus fell down and began to be full of heaviness and unbearable sorrow. He prayed to the Father "with loud cries and tears unto Him that was able to save Him from death." It says His disciples "slept for sorrow." I believe they were so overwhelmed and grieved they just slept. But Jesus said to them as recorded in Marks gospel, "Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. For the Spirit is truly ready, but the flesh is weak." Matthews gospel records the same thing but says, "Watch ye and pray that you enter not into temptation, for the Spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak."

You may be in a turmoil right now and in a hard place, but "the Spirit is truly ready," and He is "indeed willing" even now. Right this very minute! You see, truly ready people are always ready already. They go over some things in their lives to clear themselves with the Lord from time to time, but they always live in a constant readiness along with the truly, willing Holy Spirit. What is too heavy for you, let the Holy Spirit's strength, power and comfort perform what you are too weak in the flesh to do. Let go of what you cannot do or change. Lean on the everlasting arms. He will make you ready in ways that are no burden or heaviness at all. Trust the Lord who smooths the road before you and clears your skies.