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WHISPERS TO AND FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Closer I Get To You

Lord when I realize
the darkness within’
I feel false
but with you, I can have truth
I feel a hopelessness
but with you, I can have hope.
I feel lovelessness
but with you, l can have love.
I feel selfish
but with you, I can be selfless
I feel guilt
but with you, I can have forgiveness
I feel impure
but with you, I can have purity
I feel lonely
but with you, I can have togetherness
I feel fear
but with you, I can be redeemed.
The closer I get to you
the more I see the
folly of my life’s decision.
In the essence of who you are
I expect my salvation to be.

Dr. Don’s Reflection

The closer I get to the Lord the more I realize how foolish some of my life’s decisions and activities were.  With most of these decisions and activities (not all), I did not realize I was being so foolish.  When I say foolish I mean spiritually foolish and not worldly foolish.  In the eyes of the world, I was right on but in the eyes of God, I was sinful.  It is amazing how the views of the world are so different from the views of God.  I just never realized this because I was too much in the world and not enough in the Holy Spirit. 

Jesus knew man would be this way. Jesus knew the pull of Satan, the World, and “Self” would be too much for mankind. He told his apostles before leaving this earth that he would send the Holy Spirit to show us the way of the Lord in contrast to the way of the world.

There is one catch here. Christ promises to give me the Holy Spirit but I had to receive the Holy Spirit. The giving is assured the receiving is not.  For that reason, I was living life without the guidance and counsel of the Holy Spirit because in that part of my life I had not received the Holy Spirit. My sinfulness led to the darkness within.  Sin always does.

In that darkness, I could feel my false self, hopelessness, selfishness, guilt, impurity, loneliness fear, and anything else Satan planted in my being to destroy me.  But I was saved from all that when I accepted the Holy Spirit.  From that day on the Holy Spirit has been my teacher, counselor, advocate, and more. He gave me all the spiritual love and support promised by Jesus to his apostles over two thousand years ago. I was not always aligned with teaching and counseling but the Holy Spirit never gave up on me.

This is what is meant when someone says, “I have been saved”  When I accepted the Holy Spirit he became alive in me, and in doing so he shined a light on all the corrupt feelings that I found in the darkness of my being.  In that light, I was freed to walk with Christ in his righteousness and not mine. With Christ, there is no such thing as a self-righteous soul.

All righteousness and redemption come from Christ and that is OK with me because I tried it by myself without the Holy Spirit and it only led to sin.  The Holy Spirit saved me from a life of darkness that always leads to damnation. With Christ, through the Holy Spirit, I have been redeemed. Praise and thanks to God.

Dr. Don’s Comments

Surely, you have experienced darkness in your life even if you have been walking with Jesus. If you have not been walking with Jesus then I know you have experienced darkness and most likely still do.

Darkness cannot exist in light.  Darkness is the absence of light. Jesus who is the light and the life of a soul, through the Holy Spirit is the light that consumes the darkness.  With all the darkness that can be found in the world and your life, it is beyond me how anyone can get by without the light of Jesus. Not having the light of Jesus in life is like not having a flashlight in a power outage. You are lost in the dark

Do you get what I am writing about? Jesus is the antidote to all the darkness that enters your life through sin or just the experiencing life events, such as, the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, financial difficulties, addiction and so many other sources of darkness which cloud over us.  And while some of this darkness cannot be avoided in your life it can be lessened greatly by Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was given to you as Jesus told his apostles to guide, teach, comfort, console, and counsel you in good times and bad.

The Holy Spirit is with you in the darkness.  That is where his roles as teacher, comforter, consoler, and counselor come in.  In these roles, the Holy Spirit is the light of Jesus to help you navigate through your life experiences. As this Whisper calls out, when you do not feel love Christ is your love, when you feel hopeless, Christ is your hope, when you feel selfish, Christ helps you be selfless, when you feel can’t forgive Christ shows you how to forgive, when you feel lonely you feel togetherness with Christ.  Christ is the life, the truth, and way through life. If you are not receiving what he has to give you then most likely you are in the darkness much deeper and longer than you would be if you have accepted the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

If the Holy Spirit is dwelling in you then you have the light you need not necessarily to avoid the darkness but to certainly get through it.  If the Holy Spirit does not dwell in you then you need to accept the Holy Spirit to know Jesus better and to be guided by his light.

Simply say a few words like this. “Lord, please let me receive the Holy Spirit. I want the light of your being to be shone on my life. Shine the light on the path through the darkness of my life that will lead me to you.  Give me the comfort and consolation of being in your grace.”

If you pray these words of words like this you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit and the light of Christ will be yours