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Pentecost

Posted On June 2, 2019

In just under a week, we celebrate the feast of Pentecost. The readings begin to focus on the coming of the Holy Spirit and during these nine days preceding Pentecost, we pray to grow closer to the third person of the trinity and to be filled with the gifts of the Spirit to serve God and others. Jesus said to his disciples, “But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7)

Today is the ascension of the Lord. Before Jesus departs, he wants his disciples to know he will not leave them alone, but he will send the Spirit, who will speak the truth from the Father. He will teach them in the way of truth. Each of us must search our own hearts asking for the Holy Spirit to aid us to surrender more and more each day. God wants all of us, not just a part we give to him from time to time, but a commitment each day. God also wants us to depend upon him for our very lives. He will use us in his plan that he has prepared for each one of us.

I think sometimes we may not believe that God has any plan for our lives, but through the Holy Spirit in prayer, he will answer us and lead us, if we humble ourselves before him. In Jeremiah 29:10-14 we read, “For thus says the LORD: Only after seventy years have elapsed for Babylon will I deal with you and fulfill for you my promise to bring you back to this place. For I know well the plans I have in mind for you—oracle of the LORD—plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope. When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart, I will let you find me—oracle of the LORD—and I will change your lot; I will gather you together from all the nations and all the places to which I have banished you—oracle of the LORD—and bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.” God’s plan is for our well being, not for our pleasures and seeking of this world, but to live fully in the Lord, knowing he is with us.

Some of his last words were, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20) As this week continues, may you seek God through his Holy Spirit and allow God to bring you into his presence and fill you with joy. May that abiding presence remind you through the Holy Spirit he is always with you.

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