1 Corinthians 6:19 (NIV)
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of
the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not
your own;
Who is the Holy Spirit? He is God, just as God the Father
and God the Son are also God. We speak of them as the Trinity. You ask me to
explain the Trinity. Our minds can but dimly grasp these great spiritual facts,
because we are finite and God is infinite.
It may help to remember that God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit have all existed from eternity. The work of creation
was given to the Son and we are told that, “All things were made by Him and
without Him was not anything made that was made.” But when you read the second
verse of the first chapter of Genesis, you will find that the Holy Spirit was
also there, moving upon the face of His creation. In time, the Son of God came
into the world as a man, to redeem the world which He had created. After His
death on the cross, and His resurrection, He went back to the Father in heaven.
During His earthly ministry His work and life were spent
within a circumscribed area in Palestine. When He went back to heaven, He sent
the Holy Spirit to exercise a worldwide ministry. Today the Holy Spirit
illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual
truth and makes it understandable to us. All over the world the Holy Spirit is
wooing men to Christ, and He lives in the hearts of believers and helps us each
day. To be Spirit-filled Christians is to be the kind of Christians that God
wants us to be.
Thought for today:
Do I acknowledge the Holy Spirit?
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