God the Holy Spirit, Mentor's Guide, MG14

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G O D T H E H O L Y S P I R I T

The Spirit Who Makes God Known

Devotion

Read 1 Corinthians 2.10-11 and Romans 8.26 . The Spirit of God is remarkable. On the one hand, he explores the deepest mysteries of the Father’s mind and will. He possesses infinite knowledge and understanding. And yet, on the other hand, it is the Spirit’s special ministry to be near to us, to help us understand who God is and what he desires. The Holy Spirit is, in the teaching of 1 Corinthians 2, the one who reveals God’s hidden wisdom and mysteries to us. And, as the reading from Romans points out, the Spirit will pray the will of God in and through us when our human understanding has reached its limits and we do not know what or how we should pray. As we begin our study of the theology of the Holy Spirit, we are faced with the great irony that we cannot understand the Spirit of God without having the help of the Spirit of God. If we truly grasp this truth it should produce both humility and gratitude. We are humbled because we realize that we cannot know God through their own efforts (no matter how hard we study), but only through the work of the Spirit. We are grateful because we know that Spirit is given to us through the sure promises of God and that he is already at work on our behalf to lead us into all truth. After reciting and/or singing the Nicene Creed (located in the Appendix), pray the following prayer: O gracious and holy Father, give us wisdom to perceive you, intelligence to understand you, diligence to seek you, patience to wait for you, eyes to behold you, a heart to meditate on you, and a life to proclaim you through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Nicene Creed and Prayer

~ St. Benedict. From William Lane, S. J. Praying with the Saints . Dublin, Ireland: Veritas, 1989. p. 26.

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