Scripture: John 16:5-16
Journal: What is God saying to you through the scriptures today? How would you describe the Spirit’s activity
within and around you these days?
Reflect: What a gift the Holy Spirit is to us.
It is the Spirit of God who transforms us and makes us into the people
that God intended us to be. It is the
Spirit who speaks and moves and stirs and inspires. It is the Spirit who empowers and encourages
and exhorts and enlivens. It is the
Spirit who convicts and disrupts and disturbs and uncovers. And it is the Spirit who comforts and heals
and caresses and allures. It is the
Spirit who reminds us that we are sons and daughters of God.
That’s why Jesus was able to
say, “It is better for you if I go away.
For unless I go, the Counselor will not come.” And the One who is to come will be with you
at all times and in all places, because he lives within you. Thus, you are never alone. He is the paraklētos: the Counselor,
the Comforter, the Helper, the Friend, and the Spirit of truth. He is the one who comes alongside, the one
who pleads another’s cause, the advocate, the guide, the companion. Andrew Murray once even called him the
very life of God. Thus, through the
Holy Spirit, God is able to live his very life in and through each of us. Thanks be to God!
Thank God today for the gift
of his Holy Spirit. Ask him to encourage
and enliven your heart. Ask him to
disrupt and convict you, so that you might be more like Jesus. Ask the Spirit to be poured out on your
church, your city, your state, and our world.
Where do you currently see evidence of his Spirit within and around
you? Thank him for that. Ask him to be poured out more and more in the
days to come.
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Help us, this day, O Lord, to live by your
Spirit, so that we might be, more and more, the people you created us to
be. Amen.
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