Friday, March 18, 2016

The Holy Spirit Loves You

March 18
 
The Holy Spirit Loves You
 
….that will never disappoint us. All of this happens because God has given us the Holy Spirit, who fills our hearts with his love (Romans 5:5; Contemporary English Version)
 
There are some groups that claim to be Christian but they deny the Triunity of God. Many of these groups deny the deity of Christ and just about all of them deny that the Holy Spirit is an actual person. They see Him only as mere power or influence. What an insult against the third member of the Triune Godhead who has come to live with man and guide him.
The Bible, especially the New Testament, attributes personality to the Holy Spirit. He can be communed with, grieved, hurt, and resisted. He has a mind and He guides. However, one of the most important things about Him is that He loves. He could not shed God’s love abroad in our hearts (KJV) if He Himself did not love us. I like something that Theodore H. Epp wrote:
 
….the Holy Spirit has the capacity to love. He not only influences us to love, but He also loves us ….Neither is there any question about the Holy Spirit’s love for us. He patiently seeks us out when we are in sin and away from God. He regenerates us and begins to transform us into the image of God’s Son. If the Father had not loved the world, if the Son had not loved us and died for us, if the Holy Spirit had not loved us, convicted us, and transformed us, where would we be spiritually today? Our salvation depends as much on the love of the Holy Spirit as it does on the love of the Father and of the Son.[1]
 
If we want to sense the presence of the Holy Spirit with us as we live for Christ, we must not only recognize Him as a person but we must also recognize that He loves us. How can someone as holy as He is live with us and in us while we still do things that break His heart if He did not have such an overwhelming love for us? The Holy Spirit really loves us and is looking out for us. Commune with Him today and thank Him.


[1] Epp, Theodore H. The Other Comforter: Practical Studies on the Holy Spirit (Lincoln, NE: Back to the Bible, 1966), p. 14


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