The Spirit of God

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Acts 1:8

I am loving learning about the Holy Spirit right now. The greek word used in Acts here is "pneuma." The word's literal meaning is "breath" or "wind," related to "to breath or blow." (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pneuma) Even aside from the obvious comparisons to the awesome power that wind posesses (tornadoes, hurricanes, etc), this is such a cool description of how the Holy Spirit works. My thoughts were immediately drawn to the wind on the sea or a lake. I don't know if you've ever been sailing, but it's something I've got a little bit of experience with. But the basic principle behind it is that you adjust the angle of the sail on your boat to catch more or less wind, depending on how fast you want to go. And it occurred to me that this is how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. We align our lives to whatever "angle" we want Him to work. Sometimes we sail with our sheet at an acute angle to the Wind - we only get a little Holy breeze. Sometimes we give Him a little more. Sometimes, and I've been here, we sail directly against the wind, go 180 degrees against what we know God's Spirit is telling us. And do you know where a sailboat goes when it's pointed against the wind? Same place that our lives as Christians go. Absolutely nowhere. You stay exactly where you are, if you don't move backward. And I've done all this. But sometimes - SOMETIMES - we open up our sails all the way, completely in line with where the Breath of God is blowing. And when that happens, our lives simply fly across this water we call life. God shows up. Crazy things happen. It's simply awesome. So I wanna ask you - what angle is your sail at?

Living the Dream.....