Today we have a National Weather Service high wind warning. While walking my dogs I was knocked around pretty good. I found that I couldn't always move the direction I wanted. My dogs weren't happy with the weather either but they seemed less effected by the wind than I was. Could it be because they were closer to the ground than I was? The other problem I experienced was the snow blowing in the wind. With wind blowing that fast the falling snow wasn't really falling, it was blinding. I couldn't see that well and I just had to trust that I knew where I was and what was around me. That wasn't too hard since I've walked my dogs around that block almost daily.
While walking the dogs in the blinding wind, tossed to and fro I had an epiphany of sorts.
Ephesians 4 7-16 NIV:
7But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8This is why it says:
"When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." 9(What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
The wind in the spiritual sense in this case is capable of blinding us, and blowing us to an fro away from the truth. The only way we are able to withstand this wind is to know who we are in Christ so that when the wind does come, and we can't see, we really don't need to see. Since we know where we are and what is around us. We do this through the inspiration and power of the Holy Spirit.
Yet not us, but Christ in us.
