Now faith is
confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
It is almost impossible to explain to someone what the Holy
Spirit feels like when that person has never experienced the Holy Spirit for
themselves. It’s almost like trying to explain what wind feels like to someone
that has never felt the wind passing over their skin. Or explain what water
feels like to someone who has never been wet. The feeling of the Holy Spirit is
just something that is…something that is incredible and completely real, and we
feel a profound impact on our lives when the Spirit is present, but yet we can’t
relay that feeling effectively to another. The Holy Spirit enables us to
believe some things that non-believers might see as pretty outlandish. It
enables us to believe in a God that we cannot see, trust a Savior that we
cannot touch, and feel a Holy Spirit that we cannot see nor adequately
describe. Yet we know without a shadow of doubt that all three exist…alive and
well…and all three impact our lives daily. We can’t somehow grab ahold of all
three and display as physical evidence to someone else, yet we know they are as
real as the sun that shines in the sky. Faith is an incredible gift, it’s a privilege…for
without faith, without the Holy Spirit enabling us to feel and trust God, what
hope would we have? How dark and heavy would this life be if this earthly life
was all there was to our existence? It would be unbearable…it would be wholeheartedly
depressing. Thankfully, we do have a loving God, we do feel the Spirit, we do
have a Savior…and through faith, we have a real relationship with all three…the
Trinity, the Three in One! And this relationship brings us peace, it makes us
content, it removes worry and doubt, and it promises a perfect place of rest
once this life comes to a close. And this highlights one of the key reasons
why, as believers, we are called to share the Gospel with others. So that
others might find this same peace and hope…so that others might come to call the
one true God their God…so that others will know that when death comes knocking,
Jesus kicks death in the mouth and raises them each to new life! May we seek to
deepen our faith and relationship with the Lord each day and may we look for
ways where the Spirit prompts us to share the hope of the Gospel with others. For
there is simply nothing greater in our lives than the live saving Gospel of
Christ! To God alone be the glory!
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