Brrrrr!

As I got out this morning I noticed something inescapable: it was cold…very cold! Did you feel it? At 6:00a I was on my way to a prayer meeting and my car’s thermometer showed it was 1° outside. Have you noticed that when we experience extreme temperatures our habits change? In this cold we bundle up, warm up the car, rush inside from the outside, and refrain from licking metal objects outside. It’s not that the cold forces us to do so; we change because we want to…it’s deemed the right and wise things to do. I think that is how we should be when the Holy Spirit comes upon us…we should change…we should want to change. The presence of the Spirit, much like the extreme temperatures, should affect our behavior. We ought not to do things that we did before we met the Savior and we should now be enabled and equipped to do things that before we would have never considered doing. In fact, I would go so far as to say that an encounter with the Holy Spirit will change our behavior. Just as the thoroughly cold temperatures will dictate our attire, the Spirit will guide our behavior; as the cold bites at our fingertips, the Spirit will bite at our hearts and convict us of actions that we would have never given a second thought before. Have you felt it? My prayer is the Spirit of the Living God would settle upon you much like an arctic cold front blows in from the north…giving you a holy boldness, changing your behavior.