"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting" (Acts 2:2)
Pentecost did not come and go; Pentecost came and stayed. Chronologically the day may be found on the historic calendar; dynamically it remains with us still in all its fullness of power.
Our insensibility to the presence of the Holy Spirit is one of the greatest losses our unbelief and preoccupation have cost us. We have made Him a tenet in our creed, we have enclosed Him in a religious word, but we have known Him very little in personal experience.
satan has hindered us all he could by raising conflicting opinions about the Holy Spirit, by making Him a topic of hot and uncharitable debate between Christians. In the meanwhile, our hearts crave Him, and we hardly know what the craving means.
It would help us if we could remember that the Holy Spirit is Himself God, the very true nature of the Godhead subsisting in a form that can impart Himself to our consciousness. It is His light upon the face of Christ which enables us to know Him.
Augustine says it is amazing that anyone should live apart from God, apart from whom he cannot live at all.
~A. W. Tozer~
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