Be Still And Know

Ephesians 1:14 NLT 'The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.' Love requires commitment; the deepest human form is through a proposal of marriage. There is nothing that brings a group more alive than being present when love is professed and a proposal is made within a public space. We, the crowd who by chance observe this event, know nothing of the couple, yet our hearts join with them in their moment of excitement and joy. The guarantor of such a proposal is a ring, now worn exclusively on a finger revealing a commitment has been made. God invites us to make a response to a proposal of the deepest love that can ever be known. When we accept, we too receive a sign of that commitment, the Holy Spirit, the guarantor of God’s promise to each one of us. Commitment carries obligations; there are exclusive benefits – equally, there are exclusive demands. Remarkably, outrageous love