Sunday Reading: John 3 8
Key Verse: John 3 8
8 The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Key Verse: John 3 8
8 The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Devotion:
No matter what we try to do or can do, we cannot change the will of the Holy Spirit. Just like the wind will blow where it pleases, the Holy Spirit is going to work where He knows best. He will continue to show His mercy and grace where He chooses and not where we think He needs to. He will continue to encourage and teach where He knows it is needed. He will continue to bless those that He knows deserve or need it. He does all of this for the glory of God and nothing else.
No matter what we try to do or can do, we cannot change the will of the Holy Spirit. Just like the wind will blow where it pleases, the Holy Spirit is going to work where He knows best. He will continue to show His mercy and grace where He chooses and not where we think He needs to. He will continue to encourage and teach where He knows it is needed. He will continue to bless those that He knows deserve or need it. He does all of this for the glory of God and nothing else.
We know He is there because of the grace, mercy and blessings. We know He listens to our prayers because they are answered. We know He guides us because we know His will when we listen. There is no physical sound that announces His attendance. But we know He walks with us because we see Him working and changing people as they accept Christ as their Saviour. We cannot give a physical account of where He is by any earthly means, though we know He is with us. We can teach others about the word of God but we do not know who will listen to the Holy Spirit and who will be convicted by Him either.
Each person that is saved is changed in a way that is visible to others but not visible because there is no physical change. God’s will is more powerful than any wind or storm, yet imperceptible as a change of direction of a light breeze. We know why the wind changes direction and we can predict those changes to a certain extent, but we cannot control it. So it is with the Spirit of God.
What Christ expounded here is confirmed with all of our experience. We observe physically, emotionally and philosophically and we see where the Spirit of God works. We can marvel at His works. We cannot control Him. But He does give us the ability to ask for changes that He will do – prayer is more powerful that we do imagine…
Points to Ponder:
Do you marvel at the power of storms?
What can ever compare to the power of God?
Do you marvel at the power of storms?
What can ever compare to the power of God?