We and the Holy Spirit

WORD 2day: 2nd Thursday of Easter

May 2, 2019: Acts 5: 27-33; John 3: 31-36

The Spirit and the witnessing to the Lord are very closely knit and that is what the Word brings out today. If we have to witness to the salvation that we have experienced in the Lord - firstly, it is possible only with the Spirit: for no one can proclaim that Jesus is Lord except through the Spirit. Secondly, it is the Spirit that makes the witness efficacious. 

When we submit to the Lord, the Father fills us with the Spirit says Jesus today in the Gospel...and that is what is needed utmost in our lives. It is happily surprising to see the way the Apostles looked at, understood and related with the Spirit: We and the Holy Spirit are witnesses to these things! For them the Spirit was someone who lived with them, within them!

They had three dispositions to the Spirit that were remarkable: first, sense of proximity: they felt the Spirit so close to them; second, sense of collaboration: they identified themselves as co-workers with the Spirit; and third, sense of docility: an absolute obedience and allegiance to the Spirit that they listened to no one else other than God.

Today, our Christian witness would go a long way in bringing the Lord to the people and bringing the people to the Lord, if the Spirit becomes our constant life companion!