The Holy Spirit remains a mystery. Rightly He should. He is God. He is Jesus in Spirit form. He is to inhabit the local believer. The Spirit's residency is a wonderful challenge to even the most ardent theologian.
Because we surely lack the grasp of God's holiness in spirit form, a clear struggle ensues. Our stride is to walk with and in success. If not perpetually on guard against giving up the Spirit's participation in our lives, we will easily trade for a good, better, best attitude toward kingdom work.
Our Father went to great effort to see that we were not left alone to do His battles as well as His reach. Jesus had to go back in order for the spirit of Jesus to descend...upon us. Why? Because we can't hold up under the work-orders from heaven. And...we have major work to do.
Caution needs to be given that we not do church under best management. The Holy Spirit cannot and will not be managed.
So what shall we do? Go for coffee? Sit on our hands? Make no effort? No. We shall move out and move forward with eyes scouting the landscape for God opportunities. We shall walk with eyes wide opened for the marvelous, the majestic, and the beyond our imagination promises of Ephesians 3:20.
When we dumb down to our management, we don't look for surprise. We look for results. Yet, when we are in the Spirit formation we can anticipate surprising results. This affords us the good pleasure of living thankfully as we know God is working; we just can't figure how.
From cover to cover the Bible presents our living God who routinely does the very unroutine. The church in Acts has been thrown in front of our faces as this is who we are to be. I agree. I just don't see enough of it.
I would encourage us to look for the operation of our outlandish God to get to function among His people and His creation in the style He would dream of performing. And may we be intensely watching for more of His brilliant and unexplainable moves.
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