The coach who got in the boots with you
Dear friend.
Have you ever felt that gap? The one between knowing what you should do and actually doing it?
You know the meeting you should be ready for. You know how to reply to that email. You know what needs saying to your dad. But somewhere between your head and your hands, something stalls.
I’ve been there more times than I can count. And this week I stumbled again into Ezekiel 36:27, where God makes a staggering promise to a people far from home and painfully aware of their own failures:
“I will put my spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees...”
Four little words caught me. My spirit in you. Not near you. Not above you. In you.
I think we sometimes picture the Holy Spirit as a strict coach on the touchline, shouting instructions we can’t quite follow. But he isn’t like that. He doesn’t shout, he whispers. He doesn’t shame, he prompts. He doesn’t bark from a distance, he breathes from within.
If you’ve got a moment today you’re quietly dreading, try this. Stop for ten seconds. Place your hand gently on your chest. Whisper: Holy Spirit, you are in here. Lead me through this one.
That’s it. No striving. No long prayer. Just a quiet acknowledgement of who walks with you.
In today’s 5-minute devotional I unpack this properly, including a beautiful old hymn from 1878 that says it far better than I ever could.
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Go gently today.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-are-not-alone?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true