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When you confess Jesus Christ as your Savior the Holy Spirit comes to live in you. I find that truth simply amazing,.. that the Spirit of God who is eternal, perfect, holy, all-powerful, and all-knowing actually lives within me! I also find it a bit humbling,.. scary even! Think about it! The Holy spirit is within me both physically and mentally. He goes everywhere I go and the knows all my thoughts. Knowing this worries me, it scares me even! Am I taking the Holy Spirit places that makes Him uncomfortable? I must be because at times I hear His voice in my mind saying Jeff really,... what are we doing here again? Why is you mind going to this place again? You know what you are thinking or doing does not bring Glory to God! When Jesus was with us in person He was confined to a body. When He physically lived on earth, He could only be in a single place at a time. But the Holy Spirit is in every place around the globe where a believer is found, because when you receive Christ as your Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell with you and in you.
John 14: 16-17 ESV 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.
We make the Holy Spirit sad, distressed even when we disobey the Lord. God’s own people can make the Holy Spirit sad by some of the things we do, even the things we think, causing the Spirit to mourn or grieve. To grieve the Holy Spirit is to make Him lament. What does it mean to make the Spirit lament? To lament is a passionate expression of grief or sorrow. To lament is that moment in life when your sorrow is so great that you cry uncontrollably, your grief is so great that you can barely breath! I am confident I have done this to the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:30 ESV And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
God's word definitely tells us that we are not to grieve the Holy Spirit. In Ephesians 4 verses 17 thru 19 God's word tells us that we grieve the Spirit by living as we used to before our salvation. We grieve Him when we don’t speak truthfully to our brothers and sisters in Christ, Ephesians 4:25, when we let anger control our actions, Ephesians 4:26 and 27, when we steal from each other, Ephesians 4:28, when we speak foul and abusive words to one another, instead of uplifting and encouraging words Ephesians 4:29. We also grieve the Spirit when we don’t get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior, Ephesians 4:31, and when we fail to be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you, Ephesians 4:32. The Holy Spirit of God lives within every Christian. We are His temple, and when we don’t walk in the holiness and love of Christ and in harmony with fellow believers, we grieve the Spirit of God with our sinful thoughts and behaviors! When we do not allow God’s Spirit to be seen in our behavior, in our lives, when we do what we know is wrong, we grieve, lament and suppress or quench the Holy Spirit. We do not allow the Spirit to reveal Himself in our lives and do what He wants to with , with “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. So how do avoid grieving the Holy Spirit? The only way is the one that leads the believer closer to God and purity and farther away from the world and sin. Just as we don't like to be grieved, we should not quench or grieve the Holy Spirit by refusing to follow His leading!
1 Thessalonians 5:19
