‘Your Holy Spirit’

‘Your Holy Spirit’

‘…and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.’

Psalm 51:11b

The Holy Spirit is critical to all vital spiritual life. No one has ever been regenerated, without the work of the Holy Spirit. No one has ever understood the Gospel message, apart from the Holy Spirit. No one has ever been saved apart from the Holy Spirit. There has been no believer, over the course of all of the history of salvation, who has not been indwelt by the Holy Spirit. David understood that the Holy Spirit was critical to the restoration of his relationship with God. Therefore David prayed, ‘Do not take your Holy Spirit from me.’ David understood that its was the Holy Spirit that enabled him to have the comfortable sense of the Presence of God. As long as he continued in an unrepentant state, he was not enjoying that communion which comes with the sense of God’s Presence. Therefore, David sought that God would not remove the Holy Spirit so that he would go on without the communion which he had previously enjoyed. When we sin, we grieve the Holy Spirit. We may, for a time lose the sense of the Presence of God. He may withdraw His Spirit from us, not in the sense that He no longer indwells us, but in the sense that He no longer grants us the comfortable sense of God’s Presence and favor. Today, let us dwell upon the work of the Spirit, and how He takes the things of Christ and shows them unto us. We cannot lose this. We need it daily.

Our most Holy and Kind God,
we rejoice in the blessed work of Your Holy Spirit.
We evermore desire, the unbroken communion with You,
which the Holy Spirit enables.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning