When The Spirit Moves
Monday (January 5)
When The Spirit Moves
1 Samuel 10:10-12
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them. And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?” … Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Sometimes the Spirit of God rushes upon a believer by opening his eyes to some dire need and filling him with an urgent desire to help. This seizure of divine compassion is what led Amy Carmichael to rescue trafficked young children in India and Jim Elliot to die at the hands of the Auca Indian tribe while delivering the gospel and Corrie Ten Boom to buy a refuge for those who’d been abused during World War II. Other times, the Spirit of God rushes upon a believer by providing a resolution to long-term suffering and an unanswered prayer. This seizure of divine reconciliation caused Joseph to weep as he embraced the very brothers who’d once abused him, and filled Abraham’s heart with awe as the midwives delivered Isaac into the world though Sarah was long past her maternal window, and raptured the minds of those agonized disciples on the road to Emmaus who were troubled over the recent Passion events until Christ came to walk with them. And other times, the Spirit rushes upon a believer so suddenly and so remarkably and so effusively that all others can do is either join in with the expression or scratch their heads and look on with astonishment. Like when Peter, an uneducated fisherman, preached a bombshell of a sermon to the Sanhedrin, or when the Spirit fell upon disciples as tongues of fire and broke all language barriers, or when Moses raised a staff in the air and parted the Red Sea.
Friend, you are endowed by that same Spirit right now, and Paul exhorts us in Ephesians 5:18 to be filled with the Spirit today. So, whether that means seeing a need and responding, or being an agent of reconciliation in some conflict, or being willing to preach the truth even to an unfriendly audience, may your life today be a testament of God’s wonder-working power to a watching world.