Thoughts for another day

May 7, 2014.

Today's verse:  1 Cor. 12:3b. and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit. (NRSV –copy. ack.)

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

If you, from your heart sincerely believe in Jesus and declare, ‘Jesus is Lord’ then Scripture says, it is the Holy Spirit in you prompting you to say it for only by the Holy Spirit being resident in your heart can you proclaim that Jesus is the King of kings.  This comes as a consolation to many who believe they don’t have the Holy Spirit because they’ve not been able to witness His Presence in a dramatic manner.  But that’s not right for the moment we accepted Jesus as our Lord and God and welcomed Him in our hearts; God gave us His Holy Spirit as a first installment for we became His children in Christ Jesus and Jesus wanted us to have the Holy Spirit to guide, lead and control our lives thereon.

You see, the Holy Spirit resides in every Christian who wants to praise and glorify Jesus.  He is a gentle God and He will never force Himself on anyone; and awesome though He is and very, very powerful, He will never harm us even when we force Him away by our truant and bad acts and in this case He gently moves away, being offended with us.  But the moment we celebrate Jesus and praise and glorify Him, the Holy Spirit is back.  He is by our side when we’re in distress and we need help.  We may never see Him or perceive Him, but we mustn’t forget that He is by our side. 

In times of danger, He never forsakes us; we may think He has because we know we sinned earlier, but my friend, I believe and know that the Holy Spirit goes about His business of being ‘Counselor’ and ‘Comforter’ to us rather seriously when we invite Jesus to live with us.  We may sin grievously but remember He doesn’t move away and we must remember at this time His mercy and His love and repent…not just be sorry but repent and then He comes with force into our lives signaling a new beginning by which also we can unhesitatingly declare, ‘JESUS IS LORD.’