In His Name Devotionals
SPIRITUAL LIFE
In His Name Devotionals
SPIRITUAL LIFE
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20, NASB; also read 1 Corinthians 3:16-17).
The Holy Spirit and Christians are intimately related. It’s a non-miraculous, indwelling relationship. When we turn to Jesus in obedience of faith (John 5:30-32, 7:37-39), we are given the Holy Spirit as a promised gift from God. In other words, as Christians, we become a place where the Spirit of God lives.
Our spiritual life is dependent on the Holy Spirit. In fact, without the Holy Spirit in our lives we are spiritually dead. The first and greatest benefit of the Spirit in us is spiritual life. Although alive physically, we may be dead in our sins (Ephesians 2:1)—separated from God. Therefore, we must be born again of water and the Spirit in order to have “newness of life” (John 3:1-8). This new birth occurs when we are baptized into Christ (Romans 6:3-11) and receive the Person of the Holy Spirit as a gift (Acts 2:38-41). Spiritual life begins when the Holy Spirit enters in. When a Christian allows the Holy Spirit to continue living within, eternal life is promised (Galatians 6:8).
The Holy Spirit gives us life (Romans 8:2, 9-11). Life is precious. Jesus asked the question: “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul [life]?” (Mark 8:36). One life (soul) is worth more than the whole world. There is really no realistic comparison between the inanimate and the animate. That which does not live does not last, but a life in Jesus sown to the Spirit reaps eternal life. The indispensable role of the Holy Spirit in our lives today is this: He gives us spiritual life!
