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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