The Spirit Rocks

WORD 2day: Monday, Second week after Easter

April 17, 2023: Acts 4: 23-31; John 3:1-8

If the week that has just passed us by, detailed to us what it means to be Persons of Resurrection, this week would present to us what it means to be Persons of the Spirit. With the Resurrection experience beheld and celebrated, the next and equally crucial experience of the presence and power of the Spirit is being highlighted from this week. 

Today the Word tells us, that the Spirit rocks and the Early Christian Community experienced it in concrete. The Spirit rocks, rocks in two ways: one, it rocks the complacency of an individual's or community's heart; second, it rocks the entire reality around that every one experiences something that he or she has never experienced before or has been dreaming about.

There have been people in history who were rocked by the Spirit in their heart...right from Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and the prophets, right upto John the Baptist and Nicodemus whom we see encountering Jesus in the Gospel today - they were all rocked in the spirit and they began searching for the eternal truth.

When the Spirit raised people, it rocked the entire world and history. Things were changed as they were never before. Today the Spirit awaits to rock the world through you and me. Being instruments in the hands of the Lord, is to rock the world in the Lord's name - the Spirit will do it if only we are ready to yield! Are we ready to rock... let us allow the Spirit within us to rock!