As I reflect on the Holy Spirit, I am more and more amazed by Him. The Spirit is the animating principle of life. He is a veritable part of the Tri-union God. Pretty amazing! He is the giver of life, not only in a spiritual sense, but in a very tangible, physical way. The very thought makes my mind swirl! Oh how I am amazed by You!!!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
On the Holy Spirit
Recently, I've been thinking much about the Holy Spirit. A big part of that is because I'm taking a summer course called "Theology of the Holy Spirit." Doing my readings, and the research and the writing I have to do, has caused me to reflect much on the Third Person of the Trinity. I really don't think that I had a very Trinitarian view of God prior to taking this course. In many ways, I haven't really thought of the Holy Spirit. He was more of an aside. Yes, I know that He is a part of the Trinity. Yes, I know that He is very much involved in the sanctification process that every Christian goes through. But in terms of my thinking about who God is, I really think that the term God was mainly limited to thoughts of God the Father. After that, then God the Son. And as some sidekick comes the Holy Spirit. I was struck by this realization as I reflected on my thinking about God and how I definitely did not have a very Trinitarian view of God.
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It's funny that you mention that you really haven't though of the holy spirit. While i was in bible study, our group came to the conclusion that the reason we don't think about the holy spirit a lot is because we don't know about him.
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