The Holy Spirit

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John 14:15–20 (NIV): 15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth. The world can not accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

God the Father, Jesus His Son, and the Holy Spirit are 3 distinct persons, yet they are one in the Holy Trinity. That means when you see Jesus in the flesh, you also see God the Father (see John 14:9). Yet as a distinctive being of God in the flesh, Immanuel, it is Jesus the Son who walked the earth and preached the Good News of Salvation 2,000 years ago. In the same rein, it was Jesus Christ the Son who died on the cross for our sins and defeated sin and death when He rose again 3 days later.

But on the 40th day after His resurrection, He ascended to heaven to be with Father God and has not been seen again in the flesh ever since, until He comes again to later rule the world and usher in the new heaven and new earth at the end of time. But Jesus did not abandon His disciples or us His present-day believers when He ascended to heaven. He promised that in John 14:15-20 and on the 50th day after His resurrection (10 days after His ascension), the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and all believers.

Thus, when we say God lives in us or Jesus lives in our hearts, the distinctive being is actually God’s or Jesus’s Spirit, and He is the Holy Spirit. He is not actually Jesus or God the Father, although they are one in the Holy Trinity. This is also something unique in our faith as no other faiths have the concept of an external diety who lives in us as a distinctive person.

Not only does the Holy Spirit live in us, but He guides us in our faith. He prompts us to obey God’s Word and to apply the rhema Word as spoken to our hearts. He speaks to us to trust God in faith in the things we do and to serve Him. He empowers us to pray for the sick and cast out demons. He helps and strengthens our spiritual formation as a child of God, in our transformation into the image of Christ. He helps us to fulfil Romans 12:2 that we do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

This morning, as we get ready to work, pray that the Holy Spirit will grant us the discernment to make wise decisions that will glorify the name of God and Christ. That we will have the diligence to do our part at our workplace and give our best to God. Amen!