The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them anytime you want. But you will not always have me. (Matthew 26: 11; Mark 14: 7; John 12: 8) ---Q: How would you characterize your relationship with the Holy Spirit? A: I had always been a little frustrated, because it just seemed like people in the Bible had a fundamentally different relationship with God than my own. There was a hollowness in my spiritual life. God was more a doctrine than a person. I also felt crushed by the amount of stuff that needed to be done in the world. There was always one more orphan, always one more unreached people group. I began to discover that an understanding of our relationship with the Holy Spirit helps to soothe these anxieties. Instead of saying, Look at all that God needs me to do for Him, the Spirit reminds us to say, Look at what God is empowering me to do. In Luke 24, when Jesus promised the Holy Spirit, the first thing He told His disciples was to WAIT. No one cared more about the spread of the gospel than Jesus, but He knew they couldnt do anything for Him until the Holy Spirit came. The Spirit would do more through them than they could ever do by themselves. -J.D. Greear, interview by Jen Pollock Michel. Christianity Today Dec. 2014; p. 69.
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