Thoughts for another day

April 1, 2014.

Today's verse:  John 15:26, 27. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

If you’re in a relationship with the Holy Spirit of God, you would know that the one thing He always desires of you is praise to the Lord Jesus Christ.  On the other hand, if you seriously intend having the Holy Spirit with you, then praise and worship to Christ will make that possible.  What I love about the Holy Spirit, our gentle and most loving God is His absolute unwillingness to take any of the worship that we give God, but channel it all to our Master Jesus.  So selfless is the Almighty Holy Spirit, that in silent adoration in His Presence you’ll always hear: “Praise Jesus” from your heart.

When we praise Jesus with all our hearts in His Presence, then He is so comforting, you can almost feel His comfort upon you.  Immersed in His joyful Presence, you’ll feel His gentle breeze swaying over you and His coolness will cover you.  You’ll realise the import of what Jesus says above when this happens and you’ll also know that Jesus has sent you His Holy Spirit to be your Comforter.  He is the Spirit of Truth and in Him abides the peace the world doesn’t know; the very peace given us by Jesus.  Even in your most dark moments, the beautiful Holy Spirit enables you to see light beyond the clouds of your despair and kindles great strength in your most weak moments so you’ll even laugh at the things that make you feel weak!

As a Christian, Jesus also gives you the Holy Spirit to bear testimony to Him and His Gospel.  His Spirit takes you across time to where Jesus walked the face of the earth and He said all those things in the Scriptures.  In fact, when we read Scripture in the Presence of the Holy Spirit, we understand how real Jesus’ Presence is and how precious His Words are.  The Holy Spirit drives away all fear from us and helps us to witness to Christ, the Lord who speaks to us in Scripture.  My friend, such is the power of the Spirit in us that I can’t even think of a moment without Him and I can now understand clearly David’s plea to God, ‘Take not Your Holy Spirit from me!’  David feared the departure of the Holy Spirit and we too who are tuned to God, do the same.  Thank God for His gift of the Holy Spirit.