The Source of Life
This weekend I spoke a little about our hope that we have in Christ. I had several people come up and share how the message of Ephesians has lifted their spirits and shaped their prayer life. Chapter one does include such a powerful testimony to the power of the Spirit– the deposit that guarantees our inheritance.Here are some words from Jürgen Moltmann on the Holy Spirit as a source of life. They seem so true to me.
“The gift and presence of the Holy Spirit is the greatest and most wonderful thing which we can experience – we ourselves, the human community, all living things and this earth. For with the Holy Spirit, it is not just one random spirit that is present, among all the many good and evil spirits that there are. It is God himself, the creative and life-giving, redeeming and saving God. Where the Holy Spirit is present, God is present in a special way, and we experience God through our lives, which become wholly living from within. We experience whole, full, healed, and redeemed life, experience it with all our senses. We feel and taste, we touch and see our life in God and God in our life.” Jürgen Moltmann, The Source of Life (Fortress, 1997): 10.
