Thursday, June 14, 2012

A personal experience of the work of the Spirit


We experience the presence of the Spirit in our lives, through faith.
Every teaching of Scripture agrees that the shape or form that our experience of God as Holy Spirit takes, is a faith relationship in which God takes the initiative through his Spirit and the individual believer accepts and responds with the heart.

It is faith that saves us, because it unites us with Jesus Christ, from whom new life flows into us. 
John Calvin said Christ remains an object of “cold speculation … at a great distance from us, unless and until we are united with him. And it is only in the Holy Spirit that he unites himself with us.  Only through faith does he lead us into the light of the gospel."

The concrete experience of our faith relationship with Christ and of the coming of God as Holy Spirit into our lives, is twofold:
1. It is the experience of forgiveness
2. and the flooding of our entire life and being by the Spirit, in order for us to more and more surrender ourselves and our lives to the rule of Jesus, through the work of the Spirit in us.

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