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Filled With the Spirit, June 17
And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
Acts 13:52
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The work of the Holy Spirit is immeasurably great. It is from this Source
that power and efficiency come to the worker for God; and the Holy Spirit is
the Comforter, as the personal presence of Christ to the soul. He who looks
to Christ in simple, childlike faith is made a partaker of the divine nature
through the agency of the Holy Spirit. When led by the Spirit of God, the
Christian may know that he is made complete in Him who is the head of all
things. As Christ was glorified on the day of Pentecost, so will He again be
glorified in the closing work of the gospel, when He shall prepare a people to
stand the final test, in the closing conflict of the great controversy.
When the earth is lightened with the glory of God, we shall see a work
similar to that which was wrought when the disciples, filled with the Holy
Spirit, proclaimed the power of a risen Saviour. The light of heaven penetrated
the darkened minds of those who had been deceived by the enemies of Christ,
and the false representation of Him was rejected; for through the efficacy of
the Holy Spirit, they now saw Him exalted to be a Prince and Saviour, to give
repentance unto Israel, and remission of sins. Christ was glorified through
the power of the Holy Spirit resting upon men.
The revelation of Christ by the Holy Spirit brought to them a realizing
sense of His power and majesty, and they stretched forth their hands unto
Him by faith, saying, “I believe.” Thus it was in the time of the early rain; but
the latter rain will be more abundant. The Saviour of men will be glorified,
and the earth will be lightened with the bright shining of the beams of His
righteousness. He is the fountain of light, and light from the gates ajar
has been shining upon the people of God, that they may lift Him up in His
glorious character before those who sit in darkness.—
The Home Missionary,
November 1, 1893
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