eDevotion
Encouragement for your daily
walk with God
Do you think of yourself as a
disciple? “Are you kidding me,” you may be thinking, “it’s too cold where I
live to wear sandals! Not to mention wearing a robe in public is out of style.
Besides, I don’t have time to be a full-time disciple.”
Believe it or not, if you have
chosen to follow Christ, you are a disciple—that’s right, a modern day
disciple. And God will work in and through you just as He has worked in and
through His disciples for the past two thousand years, by His Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of
God. The Holy Spirit is not a thing, a ghost, a force, or merely a power, He is
a living being and part of the Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, God the
Holy Spirit.
When you put your full trust in
what Christ did for you on Calvary, the Holy Spirit made His residence in you
(see Romans 8:9; 1st Corinthians 3:16). Because He lives in you, He enables you
to understand Scripture (see John 14:26). He empowers you to be a witness for
Christ (see Acts 1:8). He develops in you His own characteristics—Fruit of the
Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control (see Galatians 5:22-23).
Furthermore, He sealed you for God
(see Ephesians 4:30; 2nd Corinthians 1:21-22). Likewise, He has destroyed
(Greek text uses the word luo, meaning loose or loosen) the works of
Satan in your life (see 1st John 3:8). But while you are no longer under Satan’s
control, he doesn’t stop trying to neutralize your Christian witness. He wants
to diminish your faith to the point that you are ineffective in serving God
(see Ephesians 6:10-12).
How do you deal with Satan’s clever
tactics to wipe you out? The answer is in Paul’s prayer for the disciples in
Ephesus, “That
he would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened
with might by His Spirit in the inner man” (Ephesians 3:16).
The point is simple, yet profound: You get strength to
be Christ’s disciple from God’s Spirit—the Holy Spirit.
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