Day 6 - The Holy Spirit Is Eternal and Holy

John 14:15-17

If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you.

You know what? I get this. I believe with all my heart that Jesus Christ is eternal. The Bible tells me that. It tells me that He existed before time. The same is true for God, the Father. He is eternal. So, if I believe it about God, the Father, and Jesus Christ, then I certainly believe it about the Holy Spirit.

'Holy' means worthy of worship or set apart for a specific religious purpose. We read in the gospel of John about Jesus’ promise to His disciples that the Spirit will be with them forever (14:16). The Spirit is not just a flighty, whimsical spirit who comes and goes like the wind. He is also an eternal being. The Spirit is holy, as well. Obviously, we commonly call Him the “Holy Spirit,” and this is reinforced throughout the New Testament (see also Romans 1:4 and Romans 5:5 for two examples).

But consider this truly amazing fact: Because the Spirit is holy and dwells in us, our bodies are holy sanctuaries from God's vantage point. Too often we disdain our bodies as the source of sin and our fallenness; yet they are precisely where God the Spirit chooses to dwell (Forgotten God by Francis Chan; 1 Corinthians 6:18-20). Beyond this sense of individual "holy indwelling," scripture extends this metaphor to the Body of Christ. The Holy Spirit transforms the entire body of believers into His dwelling (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; Ephesians 2:19-22). His presence in us individually and corporately infuses us with eternal perspective, strength, joy, and purpose.

You can't see the wind, but you can see its effect on things. Sailboats rely on the wind in order to move. They rely on something they cannot see. A sailboat waits in expectation for the wind to fill its sails.

The Holy Spirit moves in us. We can’t see Him, but we see His effect on us and on others. Does that excite you with its possibilities?