God's Spirit Lives

The other day I left you with this thought:

“I invite you to consider, what Jesus meant when he announced to his disciples that he was leaving them with his Holy Spirit.”

No one responded.  So let me push this a bit further.  

If the Spirit is energy, an almost undetectable  movement, a source of all of God’s truth that, according to Jesus, lives in and through us. 

And if the Spirit is the source of all true reality, and I do believe it is, then why has this extraordinary offer been suppressed — undeveloped fully — in the Western world?

It is almost as if the Holy Spirit is suppose to be a side note in the Gospels.  Something you don’t talk about out loud, especially in public.

What if I were to say to you that it was the Holy Spirit that enabled the man Jesus to be, and do, in the totally conflicted world he was born into?

He was the creative wisdom, of God, come to earth; to recreate what God originally designed the world to be.  A world, a people, who actually live “very good.”

God’s Spirit arrived on this earth in the baby born in a manger. 

So when we leave out the Spirit’s presence, fully active in Jesus, we move way away from God’s intentions through Jesus.

Think for a minute about what Jesus taught, the things he tried to correct, the way he approached others, the miraculous things he did by raising people from death and  healing impossible physical condition.

All human impossibilities.

Now, I ask you to think, again, about what it means for Jesus to leave us with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

To give you something that could be helpful, I will suggest reading John 15 and 16.