Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Is the Holy Spirit being withdrawn from the earth? He was involved in the creation of the world when “the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2, NKJV); all through ancient times “holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21; and at Pentecost, fifty days after the resurrection of Christ, the Holy Spirit was poured out in fullness upon the apostles of Christ (Acts 2:4). Ever since, those who have opened their hearts to welcome Him have basked in the bright sunshine of His presence and wherever people have “proclaimed liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants” (Lev. 25:10), there have been security, prosperity and happiness. Those blessings are a measure, a portion, of receiving the Holy Spirit of God. Is that blessed era coming to an end?
We see the hate-filled faces of mobs rioting where you dare not show a Western face in case you be mistaken for a Dane; it’s difficult to see the Holy Spirit actuating those mobs. Some Muslims are fortunate enough to live in lands where Christian patriots of past generations gave their blood to establish civil and religious liberty. They may now feel a constraint that hinders them from giving loose rein to resentful feelings they may have against freedom of the press; that is an evidence that the Holy Spirit is still “hovering over the face” of the land restraining the mayhem that would come if He were fully withdrawn.
History demonstrates what happens in highly cultured lands where the Holy Spirit is so repressed that He is withdrawn—the French Revolution, for example, and the land of the Holocaust. Recent news tells how Roman Catholics are reacting forcefully against cartoonists who they think have desecrated the Virgin Mary. Economic pressure is a prelude to future threatening those who will then insist on still believing in civil and religious freedom. Be thankful for your present blessings of the Holy Spirit; He is the reason you can drive home in comparative safety.
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