On Underdogs, Overlords, the Great Reversal and the Final Scoreboard
This is how the Holy Spirit works, not by overcoming power with brute force, but by subverting power with gentle humility.
This is how the Holy Spirit works, not by overcoming power with brute force, but by subverting power with gentle humility.
If we don’t get the big story right, we will get our small stories wrong.
You see, there are our problems and there is the bigger problem. The bigger problem is always worry and anxiety.
He is our character. And he must win the battle! He will do it through our sowing.
If the people of God can’t work out their own problems and grievances among themselves, we’ve got little hope of convincing outsiders that they should join our “wonderful” community.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
When we see the scene through the eyes of the Holy Spirit, which is to say when we see the unseen reality, the view is breathtaking.
The Holy Spirit will often engage and employ our earthly credentials and accomplishments to get his work done; it’s just not usually how we would have done it.
This reality of the Lord standing near us is the norm of a Holy Spirit–filled life rather than the exception.
Religion and politics don’t make for nice company. However, worship and prayer make for good church.
You no longer have anything to prove; only something and someone to become like.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”