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Talk about setting high expectations, try this one on for size: “Abstain from every form of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:22. Paul isn’t mincing words here. He is saying, quite literally, be perfect. And it is written as a command by inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

A few posts ago, I wrote that “walking in the Spirit” or being “led by the Spirit” is like being connected to the locomotive of a train. The Spirit provides both the power and the direction. We just stay connected. When you are being “led by the Spirit,” there are no detours. Every moment, every step, is powerful, confident, and meaningful. If you are walking in the Spirit, even when your day would otherwise feel off track, you know you are perfectly on track because you are being pulled along by the Holy Spirit.

I realize sometimes I sound like a broken record. Always writing about our dependence on God for every breath and step we take, and the fight to root out remaining pride and self-sufficiency.

A poem based on Psalm 147

How so we do this? This is a question we’ve all asked and probably spent a good portion of our lives thinking about. It’s a nagging feeling we know far too well if we’re honest with ourselves. Discontent, unimportance, meaninglessness, boredom, disenchantment, isolation, frustration, despair – there must be more to life than this.