Romans 8:9-11
"I believe in the Holy Spirit"
But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Romans 8:9-11
In this passage, Paul describes the tension between “the flesh” and “the Spirit”—between death and life, sin and salvation. How do you experience this tension?
Paul writes that the same Spirit who “raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you.” Do you believe that the Spirit can give you life today?
Where do you need life today? What do you think it looks like to live in the life of the Spirit?
PRAYER FOR THIS WEEK
O Holy Spirit, as you hovered over the waters in the beginning, hover over us now by your abiding presence. Comfort us with your company, fill us with your fruits, grow us in your gifts, and unite us in your love. This we ask, O blessed Spirit, with whom the Father and the Son we worship and glorify, one God, world without end. Amen.