A Life Manifested and Shared

Devotion

5-6-10

A Life Manifested and Shared

I Corinthians 12:7

“A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person to produce what is beneficial.”

 

There lying on the floor was a deflated beach ball, out of place in the big city apartment, yet useful just the same if only it would be picked up, breathed into, and taken to the place of its usefulness.

We are like that deflated beach ball without Christ in our lives. We are out of place in a body He created to be filled with His Spirit and His usefulness.  But when we accept Christ as our Savior, the Lord picks us up and breathes His Life, His very Spirit into us so that we become filled with the very purpose we were created for.

Often the Holy Spirit is overlooked when we speak of God and yet without the Holy Spirit God would not be God.  In Genesis God says, “Let US make man in OUR image after OUR likeness.” This is important to understand about who God truly is.  God the Father is the mind of God, God the Son is the working body of God and God the Holy Spirit is the very essence of God.  Take one of them away and we must then take one of those traits away from us as well.  Take away my mind and I would be like the vegetables and not have the ability to think, reason, create, or have a beating heart. Take away my body and you would never believe I ever existed. Take away my spirit and I would have no character, personality or ability to love. All three are needed to make me a woman. This is how we are created in His image.

 

When we accept Christ we are asking God to breathe into us His Spirit so that He becomes the life of our emotions, decisions, character, and a manifestation or the very essence of who He is. He takes our lost and deflated sinful nature and fills it up with His Spirit to completely change our human form from a flat empty sinful soul to a fully formed, equipped, righteous and beautiful child of God.

The fullness of God’s Spirit fills us with perfect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

In His image we were crated, so that He could breathe into us the fullness of which He is, Mind, Body, and Spirit and become a life manifested in His righteousness able to live with Him for eternity and able to be used by Him  while on this earth to share His glory and love with others.

 

 

 

(Thank You Father for manifesting Your righteousness in my daughter and for her willingness to share Your love in Bulgaria.)