November 12 - Who Has Seen the Wind?

 Read today’s texts first: Job 37, 38; 1 Corinthians 12

MAXIMize YOUR DAY 

The unseeable wind of God’s Spirit
is now the very breath of our spirits.

In reading God’s description of His incredible creation and His capacity to control it, we can’t help but be impressed with His power.  Then to juxtapose those images beside the description of spiritual gifts, suddenly we realize how much power is now resident within us.

There’s so much we don’t know about God and the universe He created.  The unanswerable questions He posed to Job and his friends put them and all of us in our place.  We are only the created. None of us were around when this world was formed and the stars were tossed into space by the hand of God.  The realization that there are those among us, with PhD degrees, who believe that God’s handiwork is a random accident of “nature,” illustrates how limited our knowledge is.

And yet, that same Spirit who brooded over the waters at creation now works His creative power in and through us.  The source of the wind, which in Job’s day was so far removed from us (38:24), blew into the upper room at Pentecost and into every Spirit-filled believer since that day.

“Lord, may I not take for granted the all-encompassing responsibility of being a temple for Your Spirit and the profound privilege of moving at your impulse. When I take time to listen to that still small voice, I can gain glimpses of that awesome power and wisdom Job was unable to understand or experience.  I have seen the wind!”