Nehemiah 9:20

“Thy good Spirit.”
— Nehemiah 9:20

Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is
folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for he is good,
supremely good. As God, he is good essentially. He shares in the
threefold ascription of Holy, holy, holy, which ascends to the Triune
Jehovah. Unmixed purity and truth, and grace is he. He is good
benevolently, tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our
rebellious wills; quickening us from our death in sin, and then
training us for the skies as a loving nurse fosters her child. How
generous, forgiving, and tender is this patient Spirit of God. He is
good operatively. All his works are good in the most eminent degree: he
suggests 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 all the world of which he is not
the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect
character of its redeemed inhabitants to his work. He is good
officially; whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier,
Quickener, or Intercessor, he fulfils his office well, and each work is
fraught with the highest good to the church of God. They who yield to
his influences become good, they who obey his impulses do good, they
who live under his power receive good. Let us then act towards so good
a person according to the dictates of gratitude. 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 occasion occurs. The church will never
prosper until more reverently it believes in the Holy Ghost. He is so
good and kind, that it is sad indeed that he should be grieved by
slights and negligences.

On this day…

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• PurposeDriven.ca – 2025
• Genesis 17 – 2024
• Genesis 16 – 2024
• April 15, 2014 – 2014
• You Have the Words of Eternal Life – 2010
• THE INSPIRATION OF SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE – 2009
• THE DEVOTION OF HEARING – 2009
• HAVE YOU FELT THE HURT OF THE LORD? – 2009
• Zechariah 1:12,13 – 2009