Before moving into chapter 4 I had to come back to this verse today.
It’s a verse not only to memorise but to live by?
What does it mean? Here are 7 thoughts to mull over:-
- We don’t try anymore to please God by our performance, instead we welcome the Holy Spirit to have a relationship with us.
- The Lord being the Spirit means this is a new spiritual covenant; buildings, styles, practices, philosophies of ministries are not the big deal, for God is bigger than anything we build for Him, no matter if we build it out of some divine revelation we have had of Him. The monopoly on truth never exists.
- What we build isn’t necessarily wrong, so long as we know who we are truly building for; neither can we say because we have come away from these established norms that we are now the exclusive enlightened ones.
- The Spirit in us will increasingly declare the righteousness of God in our lives which makes us realise we are not condemned.
- The Spirit empowers us to overcome destructive patterns and behaviours, to be free from them.
- There is freedom to be in the presence of God for the Spirit is the Lord.
- The Spirit in us means people see the presence of God in us, that makes sense, but there’s more: the Spirit increases that for He continually changes us, there is a progression of His seen manifest presence of our lives.
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