God’s Work Done God’s Way

So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.” Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’” Zechariah 4:5-7

When a person becomes a Christian, he enters a new dimension of spiritual living. Before, he was a physical being with emotions and personality; but his spirit was dead toward God. That all changed with the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit who came to indwell each believer upon personal faith in Christ.

A Christian is primarily a spiritual being. We still have our bodies and personalities, but our spirit is alive unto God. It is our spirit, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, that defines our true identities. As author Bill Gillham says, we are “spirit critters with an earth suit.”

Our competence in the spiritual realm can be attributed to our reliance upon the Holy Spirit. He equips us for the Christian life. It is only as we yield our natural gifts and abilities to Him that we experience the abundant Christian life Jesus promised. The Holy Spirit wants to permeate every area of living - work, thoughts, deeds, relationships, goals, family - with His wisdom and power.

Will you let Him fill you with the fulness of Christ? The Holy Spirit will do in you and through you what you could never do in your own power and might.

“...for apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5