Holy Spirit

 Oh that the Churches of Christ would awake at the sound of His voice! Oh, that they would turn unto Him Who hath torn and Who will heal them, Who hath smitten and Who will bind them up! Oh that they would recognize the Holy Spirit’s hand and power from the beginning downwards to the present hour. Oh that they would cease to think of Him as some vague diffusive influence and acknowledge Him as the Living Spirit of God, by Whose personal indwelling and inworking in our souls, we are quickened, convinced, converted, comforted, sanctified, and made meet14 for the kingdom! Who can say how much of our present barrenness and backsliding may be traced to our not honoring the Spirit with that honor that is due unto His name? Dr. Owen truly remarks, “There is nothing excellent among men, whether it is absolutely extraordinary, or whether it consists in an eminent improvement of their abilities, but is ascribed in Scripture to the Holy Spirit as the immediate operator and efficient cause of it. Of old He was ALL; now some would have Him to be nothing.” How can there be prosperity in a church or progress in a soul where there is not the distinct acknowledging and honoring of the Holy Spirit in everything? 

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