Today’s Scripture: John 16:5-16
And Christ is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. – Colossians 1:18
One summer my wife and I attended an opera in the magnificent opera house in Vienna, Austria. We arrived early to take a look around, then the usher showed us to our seats way up in the third balcony, practically to the roof.
To be honest, I wasn’t enjoying the opera that much. It was sung in German–which I didn’t understand–and the plot was hard to follow. When I heard some movement behind me, I glanced over my shoulder and saw the spotlight operator, whose job was to follow the lead character with this huge, thousand-watt light. He never let the spotlight stray from the central figure, who moved back and forth on the stage or among the rest of the characters in the story.
It reminded me of a great spiritual truth about the Holy Spirit. The Bible teaches that in all things the Lord Jesus Christ is to have preeminence. Just as the spotlight operator in Vienna would not have gone down on the stage to share the spotlight with the central figure of the opera, neither does the Holy Spirit share the spotlight with the Lord. It is the Holy Spirit’s mission to remain in the shadows and do all within His power to point men and women to the Lord.
This doesn’t mean the Holy Spirit is less important than the other two members of the Godhead; the Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son. But the Spirit has a role to carry out–to point us to Christ.
Friend, if you yield yourself to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, you’ll fall more and more in love with Jesus, and want above anything else to live for Him alone.
