This Is Too Simple

I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. [Romans 15.13] 

This is too simple. 

If we study "cause and effect" again today, we find that resultant to the cause of trusting in God, the effect will be confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

In plain language, we are given a litmus test by which to discern our spiritual condition. Paul has stated that if the power of the Holy Spirit is not manifest in our lives, the reason is that we have not trusted in God.

What's missing more than anything in the Church today? The manifest, unexplainable, undeniable, miraculous power of the Holy Spirit (like the early Church)! Why is this so? Because the Church today does not trust in God.

If God's people are not trusting in God, what are they doing? They are trusting in idols.

Father, I will refrain from further words today in hopes that the truth of Your Word will speak to us. So be it.