Hello again,
I wanted to share with you how I experienced the Holy Spirit today.
One of my favorite traditions during the Christmas holiday is my home church’s candle light service, and more specifically the final song we sing, Silent Night. While we sing the song the whole congregation has their own candles that we light. Towards the end of the song the lights in the building are turned off and the glow of the candles light up the sanctuary.
As we were singing the Holy Spirit came over me and I was reminded of what this time really means. I began to think of how everything that I have is from the Lord. Now I don’t just mean all of my petty worldly possessions, I’m also talking about the intangible things that come from the Lord. I mean the family that I have, and not just my family members but the love that comes with my family. The love that I have grown up with and how it has literally shaped who I am as a person. The love that is unconditional. The love that isn’t just given to me but to literally EVERYONE that they come in contact with. I’m talking about the opportunity to go to Kuwait for a year with my dad and experience the World for the first time. The ability to bond on a much deeper level with my earthly father. The chance to work in high school and not just learn about vehicles but to learn what it means to be a good employee and shape my work ethic. The opportunity to go on the World Race and be transformed from the inside out. These are just a few grains of sand on a beach of things that the Lord has blessed me with that has made me who I am.
All of that went through my head in about a half second. I then I began to think about how all of this is possible because I am able to get to my Father through Jesus (John 14:6). If Jesus was never sent to die for my sins (as well as EVERYBODY else) I would not be able to experience these amazing things. I wouldn’t be able to experience true love from the Lord. I would only be able to experience the fleeting worldly love. I wouldn’t know what truly unexplainable happiness is. I would only experience the shallow worldly happiness. I would never know what it means to be at complete peace, the peace that the only way I can explain it is that it’s from the Lord because it makes no sense how I could be at total peace in a life crisis. I would only be able to experience a very short-lived peace that comes from worldly things.
I then began to think about how this is the day where it all began. The day where my Father came down to us on Earth because He loved me so much.
That was the first time I had felt the Holy Spirit like that during our candle light service and it was truly amazing. I love it how my spiritual Father communicates to me. It’s been a learning process, but it’s also been a life changing one as well.
I really appreciate you taking the time to read this. I know that I don’t write in the most traditional way, but I want to write in a way like you were talking to me in person. So thank you for ignoring all of the mistakes and understanding that this it real life and not just a paper that I’m writing for an English class.
Love y’all, Merry Christmas,
—Cam
