Come Holy Spirit
I have spent the weekend at St Gabriel's Conference Centre in Ditchingham studying with ERMC. We discussed many things in the MA sessions, including theories of atonement, and spirituality; today we focused on Child Protection issues, all in all a thought provoking and stretching weekend ( in more ways than one if you count the celebrations and disco on the Saturday night!).
Today's worship times were unsurprisingly centred upon the celebration of Pentecost, both worship sessions I attended were not so much focused on the gifts of the spirit than on the fact of God being present now within and amongst us....
How easy it is to forget in an experience based age of the gentle strength of the God who comes close and if we are willing to allow her, will equip and inspire us to live differently. How easy it is to forget Jesus words "apart from Me you can do nothing," God the Holy Spirit comes amongst and within us to help us to live in God's ways, to be enable us to imitate the life of Christ....
Yes this is nothing new, but then just sometimes we need to be reminded....today I was reminded! We were asked today to ask the Spirit to reveal our need of one particular spiritual fruit, and then to actively ask God the Holy Spirit fruit to grow that fruit in our lives.... we were reminded that this is a relational process, the Holy Spirit is not in the business of quick fix solutions, but rather she comes gently bringing transformation, sometimes sudden, but often bit by bit....

Painting- Pentecost by Alexander Sadoyan







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