The Spirit of Good - Cross to Pentecost

Rev. Angelique Mason

Few people can express the Holy Spirit better than the late, great Charles Haddon Spurgeon in his book Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening:

Too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. As God, He is good essentially. He is good benevolently, tenderly, bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills; quickening us from our death of sin, and then training us for the skies as a loving nurse fosters her child. He is good operatively. All His works are good in the most eminent degree: He suggest good thoughts, prompts good actions, reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good attainments and leads to good results.

There is no spiritual good in the world of which He is not the author and sustainer. They who yield to His influence become good; they who obey His impulses do good, they who live under His power receive good. Let us revere His person, and adore Him as God over all, blessed for ever; let us own His power, and our need of Him by waiting upon Him in all our holy enterprises; let us hourly seek His aid, and never grieve Him; and let us speak to His praise whenever occasions occur. The Holy Spirit is still transforming lives, leading people to Christ and building His church but the church will never prosper until it believes more reverently in the Holy Spirit (95).

Rev. Angelique Mason
Holy Trinity AME Church, Pastor
Rock Hall, MD