During the numerous Sunday church services I have attended in my life, I’ve heard quite a bit about God and Jesus. Don’t get me wrong – they’re extremely important but I wish that the churches I’ve been to would spend some more time discussing the Holy Spirit. After all, it is a part of the Holy Trinity (hence why it’s called a ‘trinity’). There’s three parts to it, and yet for some reason we seem to give the majority of our attention to two of them.
One of the reason the Holy Spirit may not be brought up as often is because it’s such an abstract concept when compared to God, or to Jesus. Jesus was a living, breathing, man who walked upon the earth, and God is the creator of everything, but the Holy Spirit can’t exactly be summarized in this way.
“The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgements about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgements, for, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” – 1Corinithians 2:10-16
Yeah, I know that was kind of a long set of verses, but they help spell out what the Holy Spirit is and why we have received it. The Holy Spirit is essentially the Spirit of God; it is our way of being able to discern what is and isn’t Godly. It dwells in all of us and by listening to it, we can go forth knowing that we are being led by the Lord. It is like a conscience in the sense that it tells us right from wrong. This is a gift from God that rests inside all of us that speaks His wisdom.
I always used to think about how once I died and went to Heaven, that I would get to go around and ask all the disciples about what it was like to spend time with Jesus. But then one day, I was at a Bible Study prep meeting and one of my friend’s said that all of the people who died before the Holy Spirit arrived are going to be eager to listen to us tell them what it was like to have the Spirit of God inside of us. It may be the final piece of the Holy Trinity, but it’s still just as important as the other two parts, and I hope more churches and ministries take the time to discuss it.
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👍🏻Audrey
So insightful!