“You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God
brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest
danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too
late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark,
stands ready to welcome you to safety today.”
The
Holy Spirit sounds a bit confusing. What does a spirit have to do with God? I
thought that spirits were more of a ghost thing and aren’t ghost haunting? So
is God really all that great if he is a part of a Holy Spirit?
If
you sit back and really view this you can see that the whole idea of the Holy
Spirit is really confusing. Can you imagine looking in on the whole God and
religion thing and being told that these people not only follow this amazing
man that you can’t see but then a spirit as well? Maybe they call him the Holy Spirit to make it sounds good? I don’t
know about you but if I was a true nonbeliever I would have so many questions
about God and who he is but I don’t think those questions would put a dent in
the number I have as a believer. Yeah, sure we have the head start being a follower
and knowing what the talk is all about. But do you think we are just as
clueless as those that want no part in Christ about the Holy Spirit?
I
am being a little dumb and kind of presumptuous today aren’t I. Just assuming
that every believer out there does not know the whole truth about the Holy
Spirit. I just cannot seem to fully rap my head around the idea that anyone
could fully understand Christ and the Holy Spirit. He so wonderfully and
fearfully made. Everything about Him screams mystery and love and eternity that
it is just so overwhelming. I find it terrifying but yet a beautiful mystery to
know that our God has this many dimensions to him. This backs up the very
matter that he is able to love us beyond the measures.
God
and the Holy Spirit are both a part of the wonderful and fearfully made part.
But let us focus on the Holy Spirit aspect of it all. Keep all the ideals and
teachings you have ever had of the Holy Spirit all the way back until grade
school bible class. Everything matters and is a piece to the puzzle.
My
whole life I have been told that prayer is more powerful than anything on this
earth. It could repair a marriage, heal a sickness, or even bring a nation back
to life. But prayers need action. I don’t want to run off on a tangent about
how stinkin awesome prayer is but how I have neglected it. My life has been in
a huge rut because I honestly tell myself that I have hashed out the main
lessons of the Bible and Christ that I do not know how much more I could
possibly learn and this lesson has shown me just that. I have so much more to
learn beyond imagination. The Holy Spirit is so simply to look at and adapt but
so incredibly hard to understand to the fullest.
As
Billy Graham explained above, as well as several others, we are filled with the
Holy Spirit. So how exactly can we be filled with the Holy Spirit when we can’t
even feel it? Those things we call emotions and feelings how such a power over
our lives to the extent that they are even better than actual actions. It’s so
crazy to think about but it is what connects us to Christ and the Holy Spirit. Now,
I talk as if Christ is one person and the Holy Spirit is another. Some of you
might be reciting the matter of the Trinity. The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit as one. It is just like saying
love is God and God is love.
I think we often view our faith as something separate
from Christ. Yeah that sounds weird because he is the one we have the faith in
but yet do you know we call it our faith?
Well sure it is, we have the faith in
Christ. But who do you think gave us that faith? It sounds weird to say that we
have faith in Christ because he gave us the ability to have faith in Him. Or
does it really sound that weird? For me, seeing this all down on paper allows
me to realize the Holy Spirit filling me is what gave me the ability carry that
super power we all like to call faith.
It is the Holy Spirit that allows us to feel and know that God exists. The spirit fills us with the ability to be the feet of Jesus here on earth. It is not just another "ghost" but God in another form and way to spread His grace. You can't ask "Show me the Holy Spirit" because you would have billions upon billions of followers in front of you. It is not a person you can see but things that you see it through. Is it being shown through you?
"As Jesus came up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Holy Spirit descending on him like a dove." ~Mark 1:10
Word of the Day: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight."
~Proverbs 9:10
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