I have always been confused by the trinity. The Holy Spirit sounded so far removed from what my brain could handle. The three being one was a hard and is a hard concept for me to grasp. I came to terms with the trinity in my own simple way. God is my father, Jesus is my advocate, and the Holy Spirit is my teacher all three working in and being together as one. I try to explain this week about the Holy Spirit. If I am convicted of a sin with a desire to change that is the Holy Spirit. If I am stuck in shame that is Satan. I know I have embraced shame and stayed where I shouldn’t have been way too long. I love how God provides an awesome teacher in the Holy Spirit allowing repentance and change. God is Good.
John 16:13
“When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.”
The Holy Spirit guides our walk with God. The Holy Spirit also abides in God. We as Christians are equipped with the Holy Spirit in us and teaching us, in our daily walk with God.
1 Corinthians 2: 10-16
“ 10 Now God has revealed these things by the spirit, for the spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For whom among men know the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
14 But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually. 15 The spiritual person however can evaluate everything, yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16 For who has the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
Wow, God gives us wisdom delivered by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, and even knows the depths of God. We don’t have the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God living in us. God gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit when we accept Christ as our savior. So, if we are listening to the spirit of the world, we are listening to Satan.
2 Corinthians 4:4 “Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.”
We have been given a mind like Christ separated from the world. We need to learn that as Christians we are eternal insurgents living in a temporary world. We eventually get to go back to our Heavenly home.
This worldly home burns up in the end.
Knowing we are here for a short time, living with eternity in mind we are less likely to place our value in the world. When we focus on the world expectations instead of living in grace, we live in shame.
Again, shame is Satan’s friend. It’s in his toolbox. Shame leaves us stuck in the past, stuck. Sometimes we replay what someone said that we now believe as truth. We are stuck thinking how someone treated us was right; or even stuck knowing how they treated us wrong.
Not able to forgive.
Forgiveness isn’t given, anger becomes our comforting friend.
We are STUCK!
We choose to live in shame instead of listening to the Holy Spirit.
Why would we allow shame to take a hold of our lives?
Shame is secretive and we have all tried to cover it up, compensate for it, and push past it.
What if we renew our minds?
Bring the nasty shame out in the open?
Forgive others and maybe ourselves?
What if we live in love for Christ allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us?
What if every Christian denounced the shame, generational lies and sins of the past, and forgave themselves and others? What if every Christian lived knowing God on a personal level?
What if every Christian loved like Christ?
The world would be different.
Satan knows this. Shame keeps us stuck. The Holy Spirit keeps us moving forward.
My prayer today: Please Lord let me understand the Holy spirit, give me wisdom and discernment. Please let me forgive those who need forgiveness, even if that person is me. I need you God. I can’t live in the shackles of shame. Please allow me to live my life guided by your gift of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, Amen.
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