124 GOOD MORNING, HOLY SPIRIT
of warmth all at once.
It took me only a few days to realize the significance of
what had happened. My struggle was over! I had found the
simplicity of the Christian life—a personal relationship
with the Holy Ghost.
Today, my heart is still troubled, but for an entirely
different reason. I am deeply distressed that millions of
Christians have never received even a thimbleful of what
God has in store for them. They're missing the best part.
And they'll never know how marvelous a walk with Christ
can really be until they discover the third person of the
Trinity. He's the one who helps us with the struggle.
NO MORE WRESTLING
The moment the Spirit came into my life I no longer
had to battle my adversaries. They were still there, but the
wrestling and the worry seemed to vanish. What happened
to me was the same thing that was spoken to Israel
centuries ago through the prophet Ezekiel. Living in a time
of political upheaval, he was told by the Lord: "I will give
you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take
the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of
flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk
in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do
them" (Ezek. 36:26-27).
The problem still exists today! Millions of people are in
a daily fight to keep the laws of God, and they are losing
the war because they do not understand the Father's battle
plan. His strategy could not be more succinct: "I will put
my Spirit within you," says the Lord. And why is that His
agenda? He wants to "cause you"— from deep inside your
heart—to follow His statutes. He wants to make it easy to
keep His laws.