Recently at Evening Prayer we sang a song, Dust and Ashes, with this lyric
by Brian Wren:
Holy Spirit, come, walk with us tomorrow,
take us as disciples, washed and wakened by your calling.
I know what it means to be a disciple of Jesus—that is, to
listen to his teachings and attempt to follow his example of letting love and
service to others flow out of an intimate relationship with God. However, I had
never thought about being a disciple of the Holy Spirit. What would such
discipleship look like?
• Being a disciple of the Holy Spirit requires openness to
the unexpected: You mean God is present there?
You mean God wants me to do what? You
mean I have to rethink what I’ve always believed?
• Being a disciple of the Holy Spirit requires traveling
light, for your attachment to things will be consumed by a fire that cleanses
and burns away the dross of life.
• Being a disciple of the Holy Spirit means entering into a
loving relationship with the triune God, with the resulting call to creativity,
obedience, and joyfulness.
Once thing is certain: Walking with the Holy Spirit as a
guide means being AWAKE to possibility, to transformation, to the fullness of
life. Boredom and complacency are not part of the vocabulary of disciples of
the Holy Spirit!
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