VERSE OF THE DAY

Friday

1 Corinthians 2:14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The Holy Spirit is God's abiding gift, God's seal and promise. The Spirit is our assurance that what He began with Jesus' sacrificial death and our participation in it through faith and baptism, He will bring to completion.  But the world cannot understand this great promise, just like it cannot understand much of Scripture, because without the Spirit, their eyes see only what they can touch with their fingers and not what is true in God's heart.

PRAYER ... Father, I thank You for sending Jesus. Jesus, I thank You for sending the Spirit. Spirit, I thank You for never leaving me alone. As I am filled with the Spirit, O Lord, so fill me more until my will and my life more nearly reflect Your desires. Use me to bless others just as Your presence now blesses me. Through Jesus I pray. Amen.