Dear Explorer,
Re-Read Luke 24:46-48
Look at Luke 24:48. What a little sentence to capture such a profound thought! What things had the disciples witnessed?
Miracles, healings, walking on water, the completing of the Jewish cocoon, the death, the burial, the resurrection from the dead, the beginning of a New Way of God dealing with sin. Wow! What a privilege to see all that with your own eyes. What an awesome responsibility to tell what you have experienced!
Read Luke 24:49
What is Jesus' instruction to His disciples?
What has He promised to send them?
Re-Read John 14:26
What does it mean to be “clothed with power from on high”?
Do you think that Jesus was connecting this gift of the Holy Spirit to this power from Heaven?
I certainly do. Without the indwelling Holy Spirit, they would be powerless and clueless as to what to do next. They would be like a vacuum cleaner without electricity, a flashlight without batteries. They would be powerless.
When we invite Jesus into our God-shaped vacuum, we begin to grow and learn how to be more and more tuned to His guidance and direction in our lives. He supplies all our strength and wisdom.
We've talked before that a good picture of how we relate to the Holy Spirit is best modeled by a glove. We are the glove – the Holy Spirit is the hand! Without Him, we can do nothing!
For these disciples and all the early followers of Jesus, the Holy Spirit had not yet come. Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit to come. We'll see this happening soon.
In His service, dale
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