The Holy Spirit is indeed on the move. I couldn’t help but be moved after reading about how God is using worship music to reach Vietnam from Seth Barnes blog. A once hostile communist country resistant to anything spiritual (let alone Christ-centered), is now having their doors opened ajar to hear the Word of God through song. The thirst for Him is great, for only He can satisfy — ears are being attuned to hear and eyes opened to understand. He moves even in places that are seemingly barren and dry spiritually. “…whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life”. John 4:14
This is a promise. He does not say that those that hunger and thirst for Him will go without. “‘Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him’.”John7:38 and “when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.”John16:13 If we believe that He is a LIVING God then our faith is found manifest in Him, the King of Kings, and what should we fear? Just as He told Isaiah, He also says to us, “‘My Spirit, who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of their descendants from this time on and forever’, says the Lord”.Isaiah 59:21
He is a God who is worthy to be desired — worthy is the Lamb who was slain. If we do not hunger daily for Him, how are we keeping the covenant with Him in taking of the daily bread; that we know to be in Christ alone? If we do not take of the Lord daily then how can we be taught and hear clearly the Spirit that sprang up in you initially from thirst?
We are now in a sonship with God “for he lives with you and will be in you”(John14:17). I suppose I’d like to gently admonish the saints by saying that though this is an age of ideologies, self-actualization and psychological self-improvement, we have been called out of this world into His kingdom. The Spirit lives and works in us, it does not work for us.
I am no exception of this reminder.
“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.”
2 Timothy1:7
