[OBW]

I always liked he hand-glove analogy.

But this time it seems to miss the point. I think it is more about the Spirit directing, not simply being everything except for what is seen. (If a hand is in a glove, only the glove is seen though the hand does it all.)

I think that it more like saying that the hand is still us/ours but it is the Spirit in unison with our spirit that is directing. Not just us.

Then you have to ask the question . . . .

How easy is it for us, as Christians, to either be in unison with the Spirit, or just in ourselves?

That may be the real issue. Is it hard to be in unison with the Spirit? Or is it really pretty easy as long as you set your mind? I am not saying that just because you set your mind you will succeed. But succeed or fail, doing with the mind properly set is in one sense success.

And asking my question a different way. Is there some kind of hoops that we need to be jumping through to be in unison with the Spirit? Is recognizing that the scripture puts demands on me and that as a Christian I therefore set to do that the same as being in unison with the Spirit? Or does it take more?

I'm suggesting that I see a propensity to declare that there are more hoops that must be jumped through before you should act.

And I am disagreeing. If we already have all we need (for life and Godliness) then why do we need to seek something more before doing?