The Holy Spirit

[bearbear]

Originally Posted by countmeworthy

So.. for the first time in my spiritual journey, I began to address the HOLY SPIRIT. It was 'weird' for me...[actually...shame on me for feeling 'weird' addressing HIM]. So I began by saying something like: "UH... Holy Spirit, I don't know how to talk to You. I know You are God and Your are in the Son and in the Father and the Father and the Lord Jesus are in You".... (I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I had it all correct via the scriptures! ) Honestly, I was scared to speak to the Holy Spirit because I had never addressed HIM. I never said " Holy Spirit You are AWESOME. You are GOD! I love YOU ! I worship YOU!" But that night I began addressing Him and speaking to HIM. And NOW I know another ASPECT of GOD !!! It is AWESOME TO KNOW HIM!! When I am looking for something, I ALWAYS ask HIM where it is! I ALWAYS say 'HOLY SPIRIT. Where did I put my keys? Where is my phone? etc..." AND 9 .99 TIMES out of 10, I will find what I am looking for withing 30 seconds. Usually sooner.

Jesus said it was to our advantage that he go away so that the HS could come. Who wouldn't want Jesus to be physically present with them? But according to Jesus, it's actually better for the HS to be with us than for the Son to be present with us (John 16:7). I'm reminded of how still lacking my relationship with God is, because most of the time I probably would vote for Jesus to be physically present with me. But then, maybe not because there would probably be a crowd of people surrounding him and I would probably be like blind bartimaus shouting for the Messiah's attention in the way back. In that case, seeing how the HS allows us to directly access God 24/7 does seem pretty awesome and something we should be taking advantage of all the time.

I can't say the Holy Spirit is my best friend yet, a shame since I do meet in a Charismatic church and have read books on the HS and have experienced his gifts firsthand and should know better. But I think I will try to give it a better shot after hearing your testimony.

I've wondered if the Holy Spirit only seems like the lowest key part of the trinity in scriptures because he authored and breathed it, and because God is humble, he doesn't like to toot his own horn. It makes sense then why Jesus took the opportunity to actively promote the Holy Spirit's awesomeness and defend Him. And if Jesus did then, how much more should we escpecially since the last event to have been fulfilled in God's seven feast timeline was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost-- so we are living in the age of the Holy Spirit.