By the Spirit He Gave Us

Those who obey His commands live in Him, and He in them. And this is how we know that He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit He gave us. (1 John 3:23–24, NIV 1984).

My Musings – We live in Him because He lives in us. “We know it by the Spirit He gave us” and it is demonstrated by the fact that we “obey His commands.”

We “know it” because Jesus promised it. “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you.” (John 14:16–17, NIV 1984).

We “know it” because Scripture affirms it. “When the day of Pentecost came…All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:1, 4, NIV 1984).

We “know it” because we do “obey His commands.” “For it is God [the Spirit] who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.” (Philippians 2:13, NIV 1984).

We know it because we can sense it. “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” (Romans 8:16, NIV 1984).

My Advice – The Holy Spirit, don’t leave the earth without it. Because “if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.” (Romans 8:9, NIV 1984)