Who Is God?Sample

God is the Holy Spirit. 

Have you heard of the Trinity? It’s just a word to describe how God is three in one. Like an egg has a shell, white, and yolk, but it’s still one egg. God exists as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. There are three different but equal parts. Basically, God has a really perfect relationship with Himself. He has no need for our friendship, yet God has a history of dividing Himself for the sake of unity with us.

God’s desire to move increasingly closer to us is a key aspect of the significance of God being the Holy Spirit. God said He’d never leave us nor forsake us. But we sinned and separated ourselves from God. We left Him. So, He sent Jesus as a human to bridge the gap. Guess what was one of Jesus’ nicknames? Immanuel. It means “God with us.” See what’s going on here?

Then, Jesus was about to leave earth, but before He did, He said He’d be with us always. But how? He was leaving, right? Here’s how. Because He’d be with us and in us through the Advocate, the Comforter, the paraklētos from John 14:16 whom we also know as the Holy Spirit. Paraklētos is a Greek word that means advocate, stand beside, and comforter. In the old Latin, that word comforter actually means “together with strength.” Here’s the thought: If you’re a Jesus follower, God is not only with you always, He’s in you always.

How does this one thought change the way you hear from God? God is no longer some distant guru in the sky who might hear your prayers if you fling them high enough without sinning too much. He’s with you. By the Holy Spirit, He is in you. 

God exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Trinity. God the Father is our perfect heavenly Father. God the Son is Jesus, God with us. God the Holy Spirit is God in us. God sent Himself, as the Holy Spirit, to live inside of us so that we could be empowered to do and to be all that He has created us for. 

Who is God? God is the Holy Spirit.