Holy Spirit – the shy superhero?

The most powerful being in the world is also the most humble. God the Spirit – omnipresent and omnipotent – seems to be easily overlooked as a specific object of our worship. For example I can only think of a handful of songs that focus on the Holy Spirit.

I am wondering if the fact that the Holy Spirit is often overlooked is because of His amazing and wonderful way of deflecting attention. It seems that as you focus on Him that He prefers to give glory and honour to Christ or to the Father.

In the same way the work of the Holy Spirit makes ministers look good, or more accurately makes ministries effective as He inspires and empowers, overcomes and opens hearts.

It also seems that any encounter with the power of the Holy Spirit leaves you emboldened and more likely to focus on the needs of others – rather than simply worshipping Him.

Perhaps it is difficult for us to imagine Him as a person, and indeed I think it would be untruthful to limit Him to our concept of a person (although we are made in God’s image). While the Holy Spirit is certainly personal, we don’t often attribute to Him personal characteristics, and we don’t seem to attain to be like Him the way that we would think to imitate Christ. But why not?

While Jesus certainly performed the greatest act of service for us, the way that the Holy Spirit serves the kingdom and indeed each believer is absolutely amazing. The way that He so invisibly serves humanity is something that we should certainly seek to imitate.

We can often limit the image we have of the Holy Spirit as the support staff or agency of the Godhead, as we focus on His roles as helper, comforter, and counsellor. But He is fully and wonderfully 100% God, in Him we see the mighty power, awesome strength – and yet such willingness to serve His people.

Holy Spirit – You are amazing!

What do you think / feel / believe? I’d love to hear your comments / concerns.