Living With The Spirit As Our Source

 

At the moment we as believers are saved, the Holy Spirit takes up dwelling in our lives and He becomes the resource, energy, and power for our lives. We in a sense are housing our personal helper, teacher, counselor, and guide. Sometimes we have a hard time grasping this concept or the fact that the Holy Spirit is three in one. One way to visualize this concept is to look at the nature of water (H2O). Water is a single compound that can exist in three states—liquid, ice and vapor.

 

The Holy Spirit is a "person" equal in every way with God the Father and God the Son. The Word tells us that all the characteristics of God apparent in the Father and the Son are equally apparent in the Holy Spirit.

 

However, we can not come to that truth in and of ourselves because of sin. "A natural man [an unbeliever] does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised" (1 Corinthians 2:14). Divine wisdom can't be empirically deduced by analyzing data and physical evidence, but only comes as a gift God gives when His Spirit reveals His Word to us.

 

Looking at 1 Corinthians 2:10 we see that it says, "To us God revealed [His truths] through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." The Holy Spirit—the Author of the Word—searches the deep recesses of God's Person and knows the mind of God perfectly. Therefore He is able to reveal God and God's will completely to us, leading us in God's ways as we walk by faith.