There are many things about God we don’t understand.  If we did, then He wouldn’t be God.  All knowing and all wise. 

What does it mean that He has no beginning and no end? How can He hear a million prayers at one time?  How can He deal with each prayer individually, without benefit of email, text messages or I Phone?

For one thing, God lives outside of time and space, but He can reveal Himself in any He chooses.  He did show us His human side when He sent our Messiah who was the reflection of Himself. 

Therefore, God has a personality.  Aren’t we created in that image?  We each possess our own personalities. 

Therefore, God has a personality.  He is not merely “The Force” as in Star Wars.  “May the Force be with you!!”  However, our God knows each of us personally and He wants us to know Him. An impersonal “Force” doesn’t know us or care how we live.  But a loving personal God does!!

Not only did He reveal himself in the form of a human, Jesus, but He manifests himself as a spirit and dwells within the Believer. 
“And I will pray to the Father and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.  The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.  I will not leave you orphans, but I will come to you. (John 14:16-18)

We see the power of the Holy Spirit as one of the God’s personalities. The spirit personality was always of God.  The Spirit is part of the essence of God.    The Spirit was from the beginning.    

In Genesis 1:2 “the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” 

Because the Spirit is so unexplainable, rarely do we hear sermons preached or discussions about the Spirit.  It’s a touchy subject, even today.  The idea of the Trinity was unknown among the early Believers.  But they knew the Holy Spirit.

The word Trinity itself is never found in Scriptures.  It was the early gentile church fathers who needed to define the Spirit in more concrete terms.  It isn’t a Jewish thing.  God is One Being, but He manifests Himself in different ways. 

When Jesus used the word “Helper” He means the Holy spirit. He is our Helper.  As Believers, He will intercede for us in our prayers.  He helps illuminate scripture and gives us peace.  God has not left us alone.  Not only do we have His Word recorded, but after Jesus left the earth, the promised Holy Spirit would come to dwell in a special way in each Believer.

 Jesus also told us that circumstances in this world may range from good, not so good, and just plain terrible! 

But, by belonging to Him and allowing the Spirit of God himself to live within us, true peace is possible…..even now. 

                                        May the Spirit of God Be With You!