What is the Purpose?

Everything God asks us to do, and everything we do for God has a purpose. At least one purpose, and maybe two.  God’s purpose and sometimes our purpose too. The two purposes will almost never be the same.

So what is God’s purpose in sending His Holy Spirit to us? Scripture tells us there are several roles for Him to play – counsellor, teacher, guide, friend, and so on. Yet His primary role is what – to make us more like Jesus? Or to prepare the Bride of Christ for the marriage of the Lamb? I’m not even going to try to answer that one because I don’t really know.

So what about the spiritual gifts He brings to the table for us? Also, what about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Matthew 3:11. So what is the purpose of this baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire? Surely it is for the purpose of bringing God’s power into our everyday lives.

Yet, every day, some good and well meaning folk assign any such manifestation of spiritual gifts to the “demonic” corner and demand the perpetrators sit on the spiritual “naughty step”. If we can accuse fellow Christians of being apostate over the version of the Bible they use, what possible “crime” can be levelled at those who promulgate Holy Spirit and His gifts?  Satanic cultists??

Oh how much we must grieve Holy Spirit at times.