Wednesday May 17, 2023

John 16:12-15

“When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will reveal everything…” So did they go back and waited? What do we do in the meantime? Will the Spirit say “Hey I am here now, it’s Pentecost. You realize that there was a celebration in place already 50 days after Passover right? The feast of Shavuot. The Festival of the Weeks was the second of three Pilgrim Festivals of the Jewish religious calendar. Baptizing it as Pentecost does not really bring the Holy Spirit down.

Those who waited for the Special entry of the Holy Spirit are probably still waiting. But those who went out and ventured to be courageous discovered that along the way they got wiser and courageous. Those who went out to other lands and tried to learn new languages found out that they were speaking in tongues (yours truly). The Holy Spirit does not come to the idle. It is through trial and error, through little failures and successes we find out what works.

Come to Rabbouni, you will see this. A church that was not meant to be, has truly become because people willed it and God blessed it. As I say, the only way to prepare for marriage is to be married. The only way to experience the Spirt is to engage in the works of the Christ.