Wind
It has been
a few months since my last blog entry. It was a summer of funerals for me.
While I don’t dwell on grief I must admit it took the wind out of my sails so
to speak. Yet, it is wind that I want to focus on tonight.
I have this
association between wind and the Holy Spirit. It goes back a few years to when
I tried to learn New Testament Greek. The Greek word for Spirit is “pneuma”
which also translates to wind. It is so appropriate! We can’t see wind but we
can see what the wind affects. As I write this Hurricane Matthew is slogging
the southeastern coastline. It has been windy all week in Northern Illinois, I
love the feel of air movement, I can tolerate heat if there is a breeze.
In medical
terms “pneuma” relates to the lungs, more wind. If you have ever had the “wind
knocked out of you” the connection is obvious. We need the wind in our lungs to
make ourselves heard as wind must pass through the vocal chords to create
voice. We also need the Holy Spirit to give us the voice to testify. Without
him we are unable to even say that Jesus is Lord.
After my
summer of funerals; I have been praying for a fresh breath of air from the Holy
Spirit to lift me and enable me to feel something greater than the ordinary. It
occurred to me this week while walking in the park and the tree tops were
waving at me that my life (yours too) really is beyond ordinary. We look beyond
the present to eternity, we anticipate something far greater than we can
imagine. It is instilled in our souls, that place where Christ resides and the
Holy Spirit dwells.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 “He has made
everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;
yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
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