Your spirit is thirsty. Your soul is hungry. But what do you give it to drink? What do

you give it to eat? Turn away from the old ways of living and seeing and doing. Turn

away from what is not giving you life. Stop doing the same thing day after day

when it is not good for your heart. There is no other chance you will have than

this one life I give you. And it is enough. It is more than enough. It is all the

time you need.

Rush podcast, Holy Spirit in modern life, Luke 5, 36 through 39, the passion.

Jesus gave the religious leaders this illustration. No one rips up a new garment to make patches

for an old worn out one. If you tear up the new to make a patch for the old, it will not

match the old garment. And who pours new wine into an old wine skin? If someone did, the

old wine skin would burst and the new wine would be lost. New wine must always be poured

into new wine skins. Yet you say, the old ways are better and you refuse to even taste

the new wine that I bring. Holy Spirit in us, this is what we heard for you.

What is it you search for if it isn't for me? Why do you say you search for me when

you look for what is evil everywhere you turn? You think about how to get ahead, how to

please, how to be successful, how to get more things done in a day. You think about

how to get people to think well of you, how to twist truth so it serves your interests.

You find it expedient to do things so the outcome is fitting for you, for your terms.

You are self-focused and your perspective of life is limited by your lack of faith,

self-focused heart. I have come that you might know what is true and what is good. I have

come that you will see that there is more to life than trying to figure out the puzzle of success,

that there is more to this life than working for yourself, that there is more to this life than

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