Pastor Jim Cymbala uses a wonderful metaphor of the Holy Spirit of God settling on us like dew settles on the earth during those secret hours when nighttime brings it’s calm and cool.
God’s Holy Spirit, coats us with a gentle presence, almost invisible to the eye, but nourishing and surprising. It happens while we sleep and then first light breaks above the horizon and ignites the reflections. We look twice, concentrate our eyes on the droplets and then, back up… their whole presence becomes magnificent.
Coating every surface, bringing a mysterious food. While we are still.
We don’t know it’s there until we trudge through it, and then we realize our feet are soaked. If we allow it.
Today I want to trudge through it. Absorb it and feel that blessing. I smile as I think about the fabulous mystery and truth in the powerful transformation.
Can you see it?
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Steve Sammons
What a wonderful picture you paint.
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Ray
The pastor has an interesting metaphor, and you do a great job putting it into words.
However, the place of the Holy Spirit in our Christian lives is a keen point with me, and I’m not sure I agree with his application.
To spare a long treatise, I’ll just quote from Ephesians, and from the Christian Promise Land, Romans 8:
Eph 1:13 And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, He identified you as His own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom He promised long ago.
Eph 1:14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that He will give us the inheritance He promised and that He has purchased us to be His own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify Him.
Rom 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:2 And because you belong to Him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
Rom 8:9 … You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to Him at all.)
Rom 8:11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, He will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
Rom 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
Rom 8:23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as His adopted children, including the new bodies He has promised us.
Rom 8:26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
Rom 8:27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.
Suzy
Dad your words are so right! Thank you. We, too, are in the midst of lots of study about God’s Holy Spirit – it seems to be everywhere! (that was a joke:) Certainly the work of the Spirit in our lives is far greater reaching than dew on the grass. This was merely a wonderful expression of what I feel in the morning when I let Him nourish my whole life, beginning with that fresh unobstructed, beautiful blessing. I Love You!