What do you know of the Holy Spirit? Do you know that God has sent his Spirit to live within us? Do you know that God promised his Spirit would live in us long ago? Does it help you to know that God has delivered on his promise? Do you communicate with the Holy Spirit?
For many Christians, the Holy Spirit is often a mystery. We don’t often discuss the Spirit. There aren’t many sermons, classes, or Bible studies on the Spirit. We are told of the Spirit coming at Pentecost and that he comes to inhabit us when we accept Jesus as our Savior, but not much more.
God promised the prophet Ezekiel that he would send his Spirit some 500-600 years before Jesus was born. The story Ezekiel records in chapter 37 is an incredulous one. He is shown a valley full of dried-up bones in a vision. They were lying in disarray throughout the valley. God tells Ezekiel to prophecy to the bones commanding them to come together and be brought back to life. Ezekiel does as God commands and the bones come together, flesh is put on them, and the breath of life is breathed into them.
God tells Ezekiel this is the nation of Israel, and he will give them new life. The new life God promised came through Jesus. Not only did Jesus give new life to Israel, but He gives new life to anyone who will accept Him as Lord and Savior. Jesus also promised the Holy Spirit would be given, and he was. It is through the Holy Spirit that God teaches us, guides us, and changes us into the person he created us to be.
I pray each of us accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. I pray we accept the Holy Spirit into our lives. I pray each one of us will listen for the Holy Spirit to teach us, guide us, and change us. Accept Jesus as Savior. Accept Jesus as Lord. Listen for the Holy Spirit. Learn from the Holy Spirit. Follow his guidance. Be transformed by God.
Ezekiel 37:13-14 “And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act,” says the Lord.
Marty Pressey 