"They that are after the Spirit[mind] the things of the Spirit" (Romans 8:5)
The Spirit-filled life is not a special, deluxe edition of Christianity. It is part and parcel of the total plan of God for His people.
You must be satisfied that it not abnormal. I admit that it is unusual, because there are so few people who walk in the light of it or enjoy it, but it is not abnormal. This is unusual only because our spiritual lives are so wretchedly sick and so far down from where they should be.
You must be satisfied, again, that there is nothing about the Holy Spirit queer or strange or eerie.
I believe it has been the work of the devil to surround the person of the Holy with an aura of queerness, or strangeness, so that the people of God feel that this Spirit-filled life is a life of being odd and peculiar, of being a bit uncanny. That is not true, my friend The devil manufactured that.
The Holy Spirit is pure, for He is the Holy Spirit. He is wise, for He is the Spirit of wisdom. He is true, for He is the Spirit of truth.
~A. W. Tozer~
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