What is better than following the Spirit and knowing it?
You can do both.
To follow the Spirit, do what He inherently wants to lead you to do, or lead you in doing. There are nine things the Spirit leads us to do, or nine ways to know the Spirit is leading you. The first and foremost way, the way He leads that encompasses every other way He leads, is the way of love.
Jesus said, "He who has and keeps my commandments, is He who loves me." Jesus also commanded His followers to love each other as He had loved them. He said that His followers would be known by their love for each other.
Loving God supremely, and loving people impartially, even our enemies, fulfills the entire law and will of God. As Paul said, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ...Love does no harm to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
God is love.
In all of these verses, all of these scriptures, we see that love is of God, from God, and fulfills God's entire will. Therefore, if you "pursue love," as Paul said to the Corinthian church, you are pursuing a goal that the Spirit will lead and empower you to do. You will experience His fruit and the foundation or motivation of His gifts.
Love God and people, and the Spirit will lead you in love.
This is one way to know the Spirit is leading you.
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