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Sunday, September 9, 2018

Life in the Spirit





‘I felt ablaze with a desire to go through the length and breadth of Wales to tell of the Saviour: and had it been possible, I was willing to pay God for doing so.’ So wrote Evan Roberts, the man at the center of the Welsh revival of 1904–1905. He spoke about how the Spirit of God gave him an overwhelming experience of God’s love. He was filled with compassion and a desire to tell others about Jesus.
We live in the age of the Spirit. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit came on particular people at particular times for particular purposes. We see an example of this in today’s reading in Isaiah, when the Holy Spirit comes upon the prophet (Isaiah 61). This event was a foretaste of the Holy Spirit coming upon Jesus (Luke 4:14–18), as well as of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all Christians, from the day of Pentecost onwards.
In the Old Testament passage for today, we read more about what living in the Spirit means. The book of Proverbs anticipates what life in the Spirit should look like. Then, in the New Testament, we see its fulfilment: what life in the Spirit means for an individual and for the church.

Blessings,

Roxanna