“Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until He has mercy on us.”

Howdy,

For the first quarter of 2025 at Bethany we’ve been walking through the Doctrine of the Trinity. As March begins we are going to be considering the work of the Holy Spirit. Without a doubt the most misunderstood of the members of the Godhead. Some will treat Him as merely a messenger, kind of the Mercury of the Trinity. Others will draw down the Holy Spirit to just being a feeling that we experience, in other words that the Holy Spirit should only be seen as a lower case “s” spirit, or how people use the word spiritual. This is part of the reason why you will hear folks say that if you don’t feel God’s presence then it is a sign of your lack of spiritual vitality and you are in some way then missing the Holy Spirit in your life. But that is not how we are to see these matters. Job notes that even though he doesn’t get the perception in his senses of God’s being there he knows different due to the fact as David expresses in Ps. 139 that wherever he is God is, because of the reality of the existence of the Holy Spirit.

Much of what we deal with in life where we feel alone and by ourselves can be rectified by the simple resting in who the Holy Spirit is. We see there is much practically to be learned by studying the person and work of every member of the adorable Trinity. We can hamper our own walk with Christ when we allow ourselves to be told that meditating on the deeper things of the Bible is only for theologians and preachers. That we are too busy to be in the word looking into the fruitful grace at offer in the bounty of the unsearchable riches of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. If our time looking into the Great Comforter in our sermon series is worth anything I hope it pricks your heart to do the work to build upon the milk of the gospel with the meat of truth. I can promise you it isn’t only worth it, but it will never seem like work while you are in it.

Another aspect of this worth considering is how our devotional moments can only be improved the more we understand who our God is. To go back once more to the psalms listen to David from Psalm 18, “In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears.”

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