The Person of the Holy Spirit

Dependence on the Triune God is a strange and stunning mystery that is mine to hold and possess. Father God wants me to see Him as my Daddy, my Abba. The soul can and should rejoice in Jesus, the one who has made adoption possible, and the one who will fulfill His pleasure and purpose in me. Christ alone is fit to take the title of Alpha and Omega, the Author and Finisher of my faith. Intertwined in all of this is the Holy Dove. H ehas been teaching me more about the Holy Spirit. He is a person, not merely a power to be obtained. He is fully God, not just part of God. He enables me to have intimate fellowship all day, every day—unlike the disciples who had to be in the literal presence of Jesus while He was on this earth.

When I see the Triune God for who He really is, the new desire is to depend and rely on Him in childlike—and even radical—faith. “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” It is mine to surrender, desire, and believe. It is His to work, satisfy and glorify.

Fullness of Christ

O God,
Thou has taught me
That Christ has all fullness and so all plenitude of the Spirit,
That all fullness I lack in myself is in him,
For his people, not for himself alone,
He having perfect knowledge, grace, righteousness,
To make me see,
To make me righteous,
To give me fullness;
That is my duty, out of a sense of emptiness,
To go to Christ, possess, enjoy his fullness as mine,
As if I had it in myself, because it is for me in him;
That when I do this I am full of the Spirit,
As a fish that has got from the shore to the sea
And has all fullness of waters to move in,
For when faith fills me, then I am full;
That is the way to be filled with the Spirit,
Like Stephen, first faith, then fullness,
For this way makes me most empty,
And so most fit for the Spirit to fill.
Thou hast taught me that
The finding of this treasure of all grace in the field of Christ
Begets strength, joy, glory,
And renders all graces alive.
Help me to delight more in what I receive from Christ,
More in that fullness which is in him,
The fountain of all his glory.
Let me not think to receive the Spirit from him as a ‘thing’
Apart from finding, drinking, being filled with him.
To this end, O God,
Do thou establish me in Christ,
Settle me, give me a being there,
Assure me with certainty that all this is mine,
For this only will fill my heart with joy and peace.
—Taken from The Valley of Vision