It is as if a sort of communal personality came into existence. Of course, it is not a real person: it is only rather like a person. But that is just one of the differences between God and us. What grows out of the joint life of the Father and Son is a real Person, is in fact the Third of the three Persons who are God.
This third Person is called, in technical language, the Holy Ghost or the “spirit” of God. Do not be worried or surprised if you find it (or Him) rather vaguer or more shadowy in your mind than the other two. I think there is a reason why that must be so.
In the Christian life you are not usually looking at Him: He is always acting through you. If you think of the Father as some- thing “out there,” in front of you, and of the Son as someone standing at your side, helping you to pray, trying to turn you into another son, then you have to think of the third Person as something inside you, or behind you.
Perhaps some people might find it easier to begin with the third Person and work backwards. God is love, and that love works through men—especially through the whole community of Christians. But this spirit of love is, from all eternity, a love going on between the Father and Son.
Jesus is Immanuel “God with us”. The Holy Spirit is God within us. Jesus came here to save us and to leave the Holy Spirit within us. Next to his sacrifice for us, it was his greatest gift to mankind. It’s indwelling gives us a conscience, a moral compass to guide us and counsel us. It provides an advocate to help us and justify us to the Father. It brings freedom and great responsibility.
Lord, we ask for the ears to hear this spirit’s wise counsel, the eyes to see it’s guidance, the courage to seek it’s advocacy and the strength to live according to it’s will. These attributes will; put us in harmony with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; will lead us to the peace and joy of the Eden that God created for us and which Jesus reopened to us all.
In the Spirit,
Z gardener
Author’s note: Today we are joined by a new gardener. This brother is in a very dark place, and this writer asks each of you to keep this gardener in your prayers for guidance, peace and light.
Z
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