Don’t you just love it when God gives a vivid, real-life illustration of His glory? Just such a thing happened to a group I gathered with last weekend to look at A Woman’s Story together.
It was Saturday afternoon, and the weather was quite warm for an Indiana/Ohio November day — temperatures close to 70.
We had opened the back double doors to the little lodge we were meeting in to let the air come through. All of a sudden, with an afternoon-slumber-jolting slam, the side door blew open!
I had two immediate thoughts, which of course, I shared with the group:
1: The Holy Spirit just burst in!’ and 2: ‘I forgot to pray!’ (before the session began:).
Of course, I was wrong, because in fact the Holy Spirit was ‘in’ the room the whole time, alive and active in our hearts as Christians. As Christ told us, we are not left alone as Christians. The Spirit is the “paraclete,” the Comforter who lives in us and moves with us, the power of Christ changing our hearts, the Word of Christ preaching the gospel to our minds, the the Wisdom of Christ redeeming our foolishness.
“All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14: 25-27
Stop, look, listen! The power of the Spirit is moving in you this very moment, as vividly as a door slamming open!
