PENTECOST
Pentecost reminds us that the Holy Spirit enables us to live good and loving lives.
In Jesus’ time it was the moment when the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit and sent out to be disciples to our world. In essence, also the birth of the ‘church’.
The Holy Spirit, the third “Person” of God, is perhaps not so easy to identify with. Whereas Jesus, who is God, has a human body, with human DNA and is limited to one place at one time, His Spirit is “omnipresent”—at all locations at once.
In the closing days of Jesus’ time on earth, He promised this same power to His followers: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8).
They were driven to love each other from the heart; they knew the secret of how to be content in any and every situation (Philippians 4:12). “A Heart that Sees”
|