MIND OF TRUTH

Bernard Cook asks the question “What’s going on? How is the power of God influencing human life today?” (Cooke, 9) Isn’t this the question the world is asking? Jesus Christ is the answer proclaimed to the world through the power of the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately the church too often defines power in the same forms as Cook describes.   It’s not uncommon for churches to use the power of fear and persuasion, seek after political power, or rely of the power of wealth. These are not the power structures that will reveal the answer to the world. Cook wisely looks to the life of Jesus to see the proper manifestation of the power of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus we see the Holy Spirit manifested as a servant (Cooke, 22). It was in Jesus acceptance of the servant role that God’s power of salvation was extended to man. The self-sacrificing power to serve is truly the power of the Holy Spirit that should mark the followers of Jesus today. On the day of Pentecost, the people of Jerusalem certain

 http://www.wallpaperhere.com/thumbnails/detail/20110624/tent.jpg  Life in God can never be stagnant. The Holy Spirit is always working in His role as a witness to Jesus Christ and the implementer of His Kingdom. I've found in my own life and I know it’s true of others that we tend to move forward, and then stop. We rest for a while, setup camp and slowly exhaust the deposit of spiritual strength and power in our lives. Only when desperation and exhaustion set in do we pick up and move again. We need His presence daily to survive, to even breath therefore by nature we continually deplete our divine resource. It is important that our spiritual inflow exceed out spiritual expenditure. Unfortunately we often use up more than we take in, which equates to dying. God has designed it this way because we need Him and He is a jealous God, longing for relationship with His bride. Any amount of time spent under our own power is pointless. I say all that as a self-revelation - a mome