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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