God Takes Up Residence

But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! Romans 8 (The Message)

Halford Luccock once wrote,

It is always a tragedy when God gets into the past tense. Yet, that can so
easily happen in the life of a person and a church. It is not that we deny
the existence of God…Too often we have no stirring consciousness of
God being here…(now)…..in us….among us….quickening and
empowering us.

God – in us….among us…..empowering us…..For 21 centuries this experience has been given a name: The Holy Spirit. As one creed says so well: “We believe in the Holy Spirit: God present with us, for guidance, for comfort, for strength…” Come, Holy Spirit. Come!

Still In ONE Peace,

Jon(themethodist)