This one's for you, Dad!

I can't quite remember where I read this, but recently the acts of the Holy Spirit were described to me in this way:

If you read your bible and pray faithfully the sudden urges you get, those gut feelings that you just can't get out of your head, are placed in you by the Holy Spirit.

I'm a firm believer that this is the truth.

Now, we can find in ourselves the courage to follow these urges, or we can sit back and ignore them, hoping for a "better" resolution.

There are times that I've done just that. I'll have this voice in the back of my head telling me to make a certain decision, or to get out of a certain situation, or to remove myself from a certain way of life. But for some reason or another I tell myself that this isn't the "right" answer. I lack the courage to follow through on my faith. Yet I continue to pray that God shows/tells me what to do. And the answer
is.
right.
there.
nagging at me in the back of my head.

But for some reason I choose not to listen to it. I would rather have it answered in the way that I want it to be answered.

So I guess what I'm saying is this:

I need to have more faith in these gut feelings. These feelings that I firmly believe are placed in us by the Holy Spirit.

Two nights ago I was given a last-minute call by my pastor's wife who needed me to come in and stay the night with their four young kids. They had made the decision that same day to leave for a mission trip to Peru. A mission trip that would be leaving the very next morning. Because that is where they felt the Holy Spirit was calling them to be. Now, that is faith in the Holy Spirit.