I hardly knew Him until this weekend, where the revelation that he is really a person and not an emotion, or a element but, a very strong relation to the three. I knew this before but, I still treated him as a third wheel to the three!
I thought of him as a element to bring myself to the Lord's heart, and to God's, me not really thinking that the Spirit might want to show me who he was in the realm of the supernatural and just in my life!
Last night, when I was at youth, the Spirit brought a picture of who he is, and what he was doing. I saw him rubbing against us, like Toothless in "How to Train Your Dragon."
The Spirit is that dragon, and as I began to reflect on that movie and the story line I noticed that me seeing that picture was important to understanding the Spirit!
We really don't see the Spirit as we should, we are often afraid of it because of how out-going and free it is! We fight against it like the Vikings fought Toothless, because we don't understand its power and the greatness to its depth... and because of a lack of understanding we push it away in fear, and the lack of wisdom in this area of knowing who he is, is what makes us hold back.
When Hiccup brought down Toothless, he was expecting him to lash out, He wasn't expecting him to be as gentle as he was, and that's how we are, we have an image of what we think the Spirit is and we really have no idea how he is, and we really don't know him at all!
We put a cap on him because were so sure he is going to be this demanding, aggressive, thing that we don't know how to relate with, when really we begin to know him he is not like that at all! When Hiccup first sees that glimmer of gentleness, which is what draws him to Toothless because he realizes, in his heart of hearts, that this dragon is different than what it seems to be like. So it opens up his heart to trust, understanding, and fascination, which are the things that draws us to the Spirit in the first steps of getting to know him.
So then Hiccup makes the effort to know Toothless, and when Toothless sees the truth of Hiccup's heart, and sees Hiccup's trust in him that’s when the friendship takes place, and Toothless takes him to those high places, and when he begins to show him the root cause of injustice and fear, and why some things are the way they are. Like when Toothless, takes him to the nest, Hiccup begins to see the deeper part of troubles that are happening.
After that when they come back, the girl makes a certain remark that I think we can relate to, "You’re going to keep, "finding the nest" a secret, just to save your pet dragon?" Hiccup said yes, like the lot of us would. We say yes a lot of the time because we’re afraid of telling the root problem of our pain, irritation, etc. Having fear that it will hurt our relationship with God, or other people, which is a lie!
It will make those relationships stronger, and give you freedom in a way you never had before! When Hiccup goes to fight the other dragon, he can't do it because he knows that the problem is not the dragon its self but, the root behind its malice is what is driving it to kill the people of the village.
The same can be said for our hearts towards people, we have to remember the root of their attitudes when they are cruel to us! Its often because they excepted the weakness of the enemy and turned their gaze off of God. There is then something under the service that is making them cruel, offensive, prideful, etc. and that’s when we have to have compassion because of their weakness.
Next, in the end, when Hiccup and Toothless destroy the root problem of injustices that have been going on in that presence time, it’s because Hiccup learned to trust, and him and Toothless had a loyalty for each other! When we let ourselves trust and be vulnerable with the Spirit, we become leaders of battle, promise, worship, etc! If you look at Hiccup at the beginning of the movie, and then him at the end there is a difference! He looked past the voices, the difficulties, the rejection, and went for that relationship with love and passion.
When I talked to my mom this morning, the three persons are like a family. God the father, Jesus the son, and the Spirit like the mother. The one who nurtures, and gives guidance, here are some verses that tells this:
26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
``John 14:26
7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
``John 16:7-11
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will"
Romans 8:26-27 (NIV)
That last verse serves my last point. If a mother was to leave the family, there would be
complete chaos. The mothering nurturing spirit would not be there to guide the children, keep the house in order (the Church), direct them in relationships, and to help them understand things. How much more would there be if the Spirit was gone from the three? We see it a good bit in our own lives, it still flows enough for us to know God but, when you learn to live by the Spirit that’s when the strength comes, and the good starts to flow from the deepest parts of our core!
So it is to our well being that the Spirit is able to come at the power it does, because the Spirit of God is what brings conviction, wisdom, deliverance, etc. Without living vulnerably to the Spirit, God, Jesus, we are weak!
Self reliant is not strength but weakness, we have accepted the world’s view of strength and we have to learn to live in the drive of the Spirit, and not our own flesh!
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