When the Spirit REMAINS AMONG YOU
Haggai 2:5
"According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remains among you; do not fear!"
This may be the most important message we need to hear, that the Spirit remains with us as God's people. No matter the circumstance, no matter life's difficulties, no matter the challenge, no matter the opposition, no matter the whatever, the Spirit remains with each and every believer.
But while we believe this truth, we too often forget it in the heat of the moment. Not thinking to remember God, we look to every solution out there except the Spirit which remains. In that sense, we're going it alone. When that happens, instead of seeing life through the reality of God's abiding presence, we rely on our own strength to face things.
Most of us were raised to be self-confident, working things out on our own. And while this is normally a good thing, when going it alone means forgetting the Spirit who remains, we're going a way which steals the glory which is rightfully God's in our lives.
As Christians, things are to be different. We claim to trust the Spirit to order our ways, and life gives many opportunities to prove this in faith. When we turn to daily to the Spirit within us, God receives the glory which is rightfully his.
LORD JESUS
Lord, I thank you for the remaining presence of your Spirit, abiding with your church throughout all of life's difficulties. I ask you to remind me daily that you are there with us through thick and thin. Amen.
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