Strands of thought based on hymn 393 in Singing the Faith – She Sits Like a Bird – insights into the person of the Holy Spirit
No.4. “For she is the Spirit…”
Let’s look at a last description of the Spirit from this modern hymn – “..enemy of apathy…”. Life in the Spirit is unpredictable, exciting, challenging..perhaps dangerous… often fun. When I retired a Sixth Form pupil I’d taught for some years and whom I knew very well asked me what I would do with myself. Wouldn’t I get bored? My reply was that I wasn’t retiring – Christians never retire – there’s always something for them to do. God was simply changing my job description.
One of the greatest challenges facing the Church today is indifference to faith; finding religion boring. Part of our job is to show the opposite – being a Christian and following the way of the Spirit will be exciting, thought-provoking and lots of other things but never boring. Let’s pray constantly for the Holy Spirit to break down the apathy and bring in the love!
“For she is the Spirit, one with God in essence,
gifted by the Saviour in eternal love;
and she is the key opening the Scriptures,
enemy of apathy and heavenly dove.”