Add water to your pancake mix and there is hope you might have pancakes. Have faith in God and there is hope you will have eternal life. You thought that was it? Faith alone is sufficient, right? Well sort of.
The pancake mix can never become a pancake without water but the water must be stirred in and mixed with the mix if you hope to have something good to eat. Faith, too, must be stirred into our lives. It can't float like a freestanding prop of some kind. It can't set under us like a crutch that helps us move along.
The Holy Spirit must be integrated with our spirit. Our spirit bears witness with the Holy Spirit that we are God's through Jesus Christ. Jude says, "Build up your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit." Mix yourself up with God. Get stirred up.
Otherwise, like the pancake we are a lumpy glob of mix and water. We are like the shoot that springs up from the soil with the promise of life but has no root to sustain it. (Mark 4: 5-6)
Don't sell yourself or God short. Allow the Holy Spirit to stir you up. Ask for God to baptize with with the Holy Spirit. Jesus pours the missing ingredient of faith into you so once stirred you can be poured out to share faith with others. You don't want to be the unwanted glob of grace in someone's life. Get stirred up!
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