Winds of the Spirit

John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. Thus is everyone having been born of the Spirit.

In scripture the Holy Spirit is referred to as the wind. You can feel the presence of the wind and see the remnants of its presence but you cannot physically see the wind. You can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and see the remnants of its presence but you cannot physically see the Holy Spirit. the Hebrew word behind spirit is ruach, and it means air in motion.  It is the same word for breath.  It also means life. By resemblance to breath and air in motion, it means “spirit."

As the wind blows through the trees, you see the branches blowing the ways in which the wind is blowing, you feel the presence of the mighty winds, the power of its presence is breath taking. To know you can feel it, you can see its affects but it’s invisible to the naked eye. As in the wind, the Power of the Holy Spirit is breath taking.

Although the Holy Spirit is referred to as the wind, and like the wind you cannot physically see Him.  I believe the Holy Spirit is very visible to all who wish to see Him, because He resides in you. You can see Him through the acts of love in which you display, the willingness to guide others, to intercede and comfort others.  The Holy Spirit, the breath of God. It’s as close to you as your very breath. The Bible says; In Him we live and move and have our being.  I remember the words of a worship song years ago that says: You are the air I breathe, Your holy Presence in me.  We can literally breathe in the Presence of God and be filled with the Holy Spirit with our breath.

As we move forward in Christ, we begin to see a shifting, a change within ourselves as the Holy Spirit is granted to move freely within us. I pray that the Holy Spirit operating in us becomes as visible as the wind blowing through the trees. You may not physically see Him in us but you will definitely see the changes and the direction in which He is moving.