Holy Spirit. Weak one.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
GENESIS 1:1-2

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
ACTS 1:8

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:6

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7


“And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not a static thing—not even a person-but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance. The union between the Father and Son is such a live concrete thing that this union itself is also a Person. I know this is almost inconceivable, but look at it thus. You know that among human beings, when they get together in a family, or a club, or a trade union, people talk about the "spirit" of that family, or club, or trade union. They talk about its "spirit" because the individual members, when they are together, do really develop particular ways of talking and behaving which they would not have if they were apart. It is as if a sort of communal personality came into existence. Of course, it is not a real person: it is only rather like a person. But that is just one of the differences between God and us. What grows out of the joint life of the Father and Son is a real Person, is in fact the Third of the three Persons who are God.
This third Person is called, in technical language, the Holy Ghost or the "spirit" of God. Do not be worried or surprised if you find it (or Him) rather vaguer or more shadowy in your mind than the other two. I think there is a reason why that must be so. In the Christian life you are not usually looking at Him: He is always acting through you. If you think of the Father as something "out there," in front of you, and of the Son as someone standing at your side, helping you to pray, trying to turn you into another son, then you have to think of the third Person as something inside you, or behind you. Perhaps some people might find it easier to begin with the third Person and work backwards. God is love, and that love works through men—especially through the whole community of Christians. But this spirit of love is, from all eternity, a love going on between the Father and Son.”
-C.S. Lewis


“If you were going to try to write some sonnets as good as Shakespeare wrote like, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” what would you have to have? I will tell you what you would have to have; you would have to have the spirit of Shakespeare. You would have to have the intellect of Shakespeare enter your personality. If you and I tried to write “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” we would never get any further than that. Winter would come before we would get the second line written. Nevertheless, Shakespeare could make it; he knew what to do with words.
Emerson said that he was the man who, above all men who ever lived in the world could say anything that he wanted to say. And he did say it. Now, how could you write like Shakespeare?
But if you wanted to write like Shakespeare what would you have to have, the intellect of Shakespeare. If you wanted to compose music like Johanna Sebastian Bach, what would you have to have? You would have to have the spirit of Bach. If you wanted to be a statesman like Gladstone or Disraeli, what would you have to have? You would have to have the spirit of those men.
If we are going to reproduce Christ on earth and be Christlike and show forth Christ, what are we going to have? We are going to have to have the Spirit of Christ. If we are going to be the children of God, we are going to have the Spirit of the Father to breathe in our hearts and breathe through us. That is why we must have the Spirit of God. That is why the Church must have the Spirit of Christ, for the Church is called to live above her own ability. She is called to live up so high that no human being can live like that. The humblest Christian listening to me is called to live a life of miracles; a moral and spiritual life of such intensity and purity that no human being can do it.
Only Jesus Christ can do it. Therefore, He wants the Spirit of Christ to come to His people.”
-A.W. Tozer

1. Think about the Spirit of God “hovering over the waters”. What seems formless, empty, or chaotic in your life right now? What would it look like for you to be unafraid of that darkness, and instead to engage it and speak life and creativity into existence?
2. What do you think about the Spirit being the embodiment of the communion between the Father and the Son? Do you agree? How does it feel to be a part of the community of God?
3. Can you remember a time when you seemed “filled” with a spirit greater than yourself, perhaps that of Shakespeare or Bach? A creative moment? A great game? A conflict handled with a skill that you never imagined within you? A time where you felt unstoppable? Share that with someone.
4. The power the Spirit gives us is the ability to do, to “reproduce Christ on earth”. How do you obtain this power? How does your life look different with the power of the Holy Ghost acting in and through you? Are you allowing the Spirit to make you more like Christ?