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Thoughts for a Woman's Heart |
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encouragement in things that matter |
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Second Best?
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Have you ever been asked, "Who do you pray to – God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit?" Sometimes that question sounds to me like, "Who’s most important?" or, "Who do you feel most comfortable with?" Personally, I see all three members of the Godhead entering into our prayers. God the Father is the One who listens to our prayers. God the Son is the One who intercedes for us before the Father, and God the Spirit prays with us. (You may look at it a little differently – and that’s okay.) What I want us to catch is that there are no levels of importance within the Godhead. God the Father is God. God the Son is God. God the Spirit is God. Each possesses and exhibits the same character and the same nature or essence. They differ in function, but they are co-equal, co-eternal, and co-existent; therefore, there is no "second best." I am sometimes concerned about the second or third place some believers relegate the Holy Spirit to – and some even seem to ignore the Spirit. The words jumped from the page one afternoon as I was reading in the first chapter of Ephesians. And when I believed in Christ, He identified me as His own, by giving me the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that He will give me everything He promised and that He has purchased me to be His own child. (That’s a personalized rendition of Paul’s words – a good thing to do when we read Scripture.) Paul’s words though caused me to reflect on the powerful presence of God alive and active in me through the Holy Spirit. If you haven’t caught it yet, the Holy Spirit is the spirit of God, and when we detail the work of the Spirit, the profound presence of God within the believer is the Holy Spirit. Theologically, we need a concept of God that fully embraces His three persons, and the unity and equality of the three. In our comfort zones though, we may still find ourselves choosing whom we relate to most easily. |
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— Bev |
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