Yield

Yielding to the Holy Spirit instead of listening to the flesh. With our freewill we choose whether or not to yield to the Lord.  This piece is a representation of letting God take leadership in our lives that He flows freely in our daily lives. It could be when God tells us to speak on His behalf or do something, and where our innate desire is to either refrain from doing so out of fear of rejection or embarrassment. Other times it’s when during worship He leads us to sing certain songs. It’s to do with singing and worshiping in spirit and in truth. It’s to do with preaching something He says to preach or helping someone in need that He tells us when our desire is to do something else. This coincides with Galatians 5: 16. To yield to the Holy Spirit so as to not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. The tap represents us, our fleshly mortal selves. When we close the tap we quench the Holy Spirit, where He can’t work freely.  Opening the tap lets the Holy Spirit flow freely. Hence, yielding. Surrendering to the Lord instead of our fleshly desires. 

“Fleshly desires” seem like some great sin. I think however, it can be little things. Things that so easily hook themselves on us. The Bible calls them “sins that so easily entangles us” in Hebrews 12: 1. It would be things like pride that we don’t realise is seeping in. It may be things like lust that was planted in our hearts through scrolling through social media or netflix catalogue that culminate and build up to close that tap. 

“Do not quench the Spirit, do not utterly reject prophecies, but examine everything; hold firmly to that which is good, abstain from every form of evil. “ 

I Thessalonians 5:19 - 22

I think that the sweetest thing is that the Lord didn’t leave us on our own. The same Jesus that rose from the dead can hear us when we pray. We don’t have to try too hard to yield when we ask the Holy Spirit for help. He will enable us to do His will and help us yield to Him when we have our mind renewed through God’s Word.