“Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again. 7. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it comes and whither (which way) it goes: so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Jesus was explaining to Nicodemus what it meant to be “born again.” The fact is that the work of the Spirit cannot be explained, it just must be accepted. We cannot always explain what God is doing when we allow the Spirit to lead us. We can just see what He has done. However, there are times when we are not aware of what He has done. This is why I explain to people that I like to mow the lawn: I can look back and see that I have done something. Anytime we serve God something is going to happen. Any time we share the word of God with someone, or as in my case, preach the word of God to someone, something happens, and we do not always know what the Spirit has used us to accomplish for the kingdom. That is not always true, but it probably happens that way more often than not. “Whichever way the wind blows” it is accomplishing something for God. I think that this is true partially because if we knew all that God has accomplished through our feeble efforts, we might want to take the credit for ourselves. This is always a danger for those who serve God. Our egos are such that we want to think that surely our great talents, and our great biblical knowledge, had something to do with the success. And we can be assured that God used our talents and our knowledge to accomplish something for Him, but without His Spirit nothing could have been accomplished. Whenever you serve the Lord in some way, even if it is just to minister to some lonely person in your community, God is at work in what you do. You might never know how much good you did, but God will know and that will be enough. After all, our service is in God’s hands, and He will do with it what needs to be done. The above being true, we need to see ourselves as servants of the Lord Jesus Christ being used of the Spirit of God to serve Him and to serve our fellowman. The Holy Spirit is a fact in our lives. Jesus promised that He would send His Spirit to all who believe in Him. If you have Christ in your heart, you have the Holy Spirit indwelling you, leading you and empowering you for service. In Acts 1:8 Jesus gave His disciples a task that they could not possibly do on their own, i.e., He told them to go to the whole world, beginning where they were and reaching to the “uttermost part of the earth.” How could they do this? Jesus told them: “After that the power of the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth.” Their mission, and ours, is accomplished under the power of the Holy Spirit – period. Understand that God uses our Spiritual gifts and talents to get the task done, but the success of all that we do depends on the power of the Holy Spirit. This should be a source of great comfort and relief to us. It seems to us sometimes that we are losing the battle, and that the devil has finally won the hearts and minds of men. This is not altogether true, for the “wind” of the Holy Spirit is still blowing across our nation and our world. Things are being accomplished for the kingdom that we might or might not see, but rest assured, “whichever way the wind is blowing,” it is blowing ultimately in favor of the kingdom of God. Jesus died on the cross, arose from the grave, ascended to the Father, and is interceding for us for this to be true. It is up to us to believe it and keep on keeping on whether we feel “successful” or not. Always remember, God did not call us to be successful, but He did call us to be faithful. So be faithful “whichever way the wind blows.” Bro. Joe
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