10 April 2018
“The wind blows where it wills,” Jesus says. The interesting thing, though, is that the
wind is not the air. The air is already
there; it’s a physical thing; we know “where it comes from and where it goes.” But the wind, well that’s the force that
moves the air. And, spiritually speaking,
we don’t know “where it comes from or where it goes.”
And the point is that we’re like the air, and the Holy Spirit
is like the wind that makes the air move.
Our basic calling in life is to be carried along by the Holy
Spirit. That’s part of the meaning in
what Jesus says about being “born from above;” being “brought forth” on the
winds of Heaven. Of course, being
carried along by that wind could be enjoyable, or scary even.
When we say, “Lord, into your hands I commend my spirit…Lord,
help me to be your presence in the world today…Lord, show me the right thing to
do,” whenever we try to let God take the lead, we never quite know where we’re
going to end up. We don’t know where the
Holy Spirit is going to carry us off to.
It might be into a greater experience of life. It might be down a path that really
challenges us. It might be toward an experience
of the Cross. Who knows. Who knows where the wind will carry us off
to. We certainly don’t know.
But we do have some idea; after all, Jesus has gone before
us. We know where he’s at. And where he’s at is where the Holy Spirit
comes from and goes back to. And so,
sooner or later, if we let ourselves be carried along by the winds of the Holy
Spirit, we’ll end up in a really good place: in heaven, with all the angels and
the saints, with all our loved ones who’ve gone before us, all together in one
place, loving God and being loved by him; happily, eternally.
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