A Monday Charge!

Remember: The faith that initially led you into relationship with Jesus is the same faith that still encounters Him and will, ever after, lead you onward. The Holy Spirit, within, is the spirit of faith to trust Him ever more; the same Spirit that, day by day, led His own heart in intimacy with the Father. For Jesus Himself told us how this works:

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

You see, Jesus, in His desire that you should know Him, asked the Father to send their own Spirit—the Spirit of truth—that you might approach Him from within. When you read of all the miracles and adventures of the Early Church, all the ins-and-outs of their daily exploits “in the Name,” you are reading the tale of never-ending encounter with the Living Jesus--by the Holy Spirit. 

So may the Spirit who endued those men and women with their unconquerable spirit, and gave them consistent experience of the Risen Savior, give you a heart aflame with love, joy and the passion of Jesus Himself in the conduct of your days! That, as one of its members, you will show the Church the heights and depths of what’s possible in Jesus so that the whole—the Body—will be reanimated and reenergized! Let us, together, open our hearts and minds to so encountering Him! Let us so open our hearts and minds this day!