The Princess and the Pea

Holy Spirit can be like that irritating little pebble at the heel of your shoe that keeps grounding and digging until to we just get to that point of telling the truth. It is His nature as the Spirit of Truth to lead us into all truth, but many times, we are hesitant to speak the truth in love to ourselves and to others. So, we begin a process of self-deception, of keeping secrets, of covering sins and simply lying and deluding ourselves. If we continue in this process, we will likely end up with a completely seared conscious that is described in Ephesians 4: "We will be given over to a reprobate mind which will no longer allow us to distinguish between truth and lies."

I have found that, Holy Spirit is an equal opportunity exposer. He will expose my sin; He will expose others. This fact is an important idea for me, because many times when I'm convicted I want to point fingers at the other person, to say he is also to blame. But because I know that Holy Spirit is a Person of justice, a Person of equity, I can trust that the same Holy Spirit, that is convicting my heart in the ways that it needs to be convicted, is also convicting his. Now, obviously it's my choice and that individual’s choice whether we choose to get to the heart of the place of repentance.

Some people are incredibly resilient to the truth. They can walk around with a boulder-sized rock in their shoe, and it doesn't seem to bother them. However, I've recently learned it, that doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit isn't digging, isn't poking, and isn’t pressing them to repent. It's just that the heel where that rocks sits has become so callous and hard, that it's resistant to the truth. Now, that doesn't give me an excuse to become hard and callous to the truth or to point a finger and say "I'm waiting for that person to repent; when he repents, I repent." No, I repent as soon as I feel that gentle digging irritating pebble that I know is keeping me from being levelled in my walk with God. That is keeping me separate from His best for me. That's keeping my prayers bouncing off the ceiling and coming right down because I'm walking in disobedience and unforgiveness.

So, in the end, Holy Spirit is an equalizer whether he comes as a small pebble, a gigantic rock, or even a large mountain that people don't see, He still comes whether people receive Him or not. I'd like for him to come with just the strength and size of a small pea so that being the princess that I am, I recognise his presence.

Smoothing Away Callouses,

MJ