“Life in the Spirit” consists of three primary Activities. Two have been discussed so far: Prayerand Listening. Subsequent to listing is Discernment, the third activity.
Discernment is doing your utmost to ensure that you are indeed getting guidance from the Holy Spirit and not from one or more of three other possible sources: yourself, the world, the enemy – Satan or his minions.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
The Holy Spirit makes us discernbetween trials, which are necessary for the growth of the inner man, and temptation, which leads to sin and death.153We must also discern between being tempted and consenting to temptation. Finally, discernment unmasks the lie of temptation, whose object appears to be good, a “delight to the eyes” and desirable, when in reality its fruit is death. (ccc 2847
Consider that as one grows spiritually the challenge is not choosing between good and evil, but between good and God.
Genesis 3:6 tells us that Eve, “saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise.” All good things, but it was not what God was asking of Eve – or Adam.
In Christ, Ken.
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