Friday August 23, 2024
Acts 2:4
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
To be filled with the Spirit of God is the greatest thing to which we human beings can attain. And unto the attainment of this we were all created.
Many desire and even pray for the fulness of the Spirit without experiencing it. That is serious. However, even more serious is the fact that many Christians do not pray for the fulness of the Spirit.
Do not all, then, receive the Spirit of God when they pray for it?
Yes, Jesus tells us that no earthly parents give their children good gifts as willingly as God gives the Holy Spirit to His children.
Yes, God hears their prayer. They receive the Spirit. But they are not filled, because they cannot endure the Spirit’s fire.
They looked for the fulness of the Spirit and expected, when they received it, to experience supernatural joy and liberation from all spiritual struggle and toil. But the Spirit was given for the very purpose of accentuating this struggle. He comes to convict of sin and to ask Christians whether they are willing to break with everything sinful, according to the new light which they have received from the Spirit.
Believers never feel so unhappy as when the Spirit has convicted them of the sinfulness of their hearts.
Be not dismayed, therefore, you who prayed for the fulness of the Spirit, but who experienced it as scorching fire in your soul.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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