Who Is the Holy Spirit?
27 June 2025 · 1 min read · Understanding the Bible
The Holy Spirit is the most misunderstood Person of the Trinity — often imagined as a vague force or a religious feeling. Scripture speaks otherwise: the Spirit teaches, comforts, can be grieved, speaks, and wills — the vocabulary of a Person, not a power.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
God, present tense
Jesus called him another Comforter — another of the same kind as himself — who would abide with you for ever. The Spirit is fully God (lying to him, Peter told Ananias, was lying not unto men, but unto God) and fully personal: the divine presence who makes God's nearness actual rather than theoretical.
He is the Spirit of truth who dwelleth with you, and shall be in you — the staggering promise that God's own life would take up residence in believers.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Knowing him
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? The Christian life is not imitation of a distant Christ but habitation — God within, teaching, empowering, changing.
Begin simply: greet him. The Spirit has been called the forgotten God; believers who acknowledge his presence each morning find the day keeps company differently. He is not an it. He is God, with you, now.
