The day of
Pentecost frees the apostles to believe in a God who is actively involved in
their lives and no longer a mere intellectual belief. The Holy Spirit has become
wind, fire, joy, excitement, universal shareability, and not just another boring
Sabbath obligation or more commandments to obey. Notice how all the metaphors of
Spirit presence are dynamic, alive, moving, and universal.
The Spirit will
always be totally unmerited grace. She always takes the initiative. The Holy
Spirit is experienced as intimacy and warmth and fire, as the power to love
beyond boundaries and ethnicities. She is presented as surprising, elusive and
free, and yet totally given. The Spirit comes from no place we can
control, least of all by our good behavior or even our bad behavior. All we can
do is surrender and enjoy.
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