The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. –John 3:8
Do we have to go to our mother’s womb again!?!? Nicodemus was startled, dumbfounded, confused. Was he scratching his head? Maybe the lateness of the night was catching up to his finite mind. Jesus, of course, was explaining the seemingly unexplainable.
We feel the wind caress our face. It can be measured, but you can’t catch it on your own hands. As a gas, it occupies space, but it’s never defined on its own. While it cools down our bodies, it also gives oxygen- albeit is poisonous. It catches the odors around it and takes it to where it wants to be taken.
We can’t explain the wind. As Nicodemus couldn’t understand the imagery.
A HOLY Spirit is flowing through us. Not IMPURE, neither FAKE, nor HOKEY, it is a HOLY Spirit. Those who are born again from a Spirit are also born to go where God wants them to go. We can’t see God, yet we KNOW He is guiding us, for real. Those born from the Counselor look to be perfected each day, renewed and revived.
And yet…We let the wind to stop blowing. It ceases to respite for us, as we let things to stop breathing. The wind is willing to do anything, if and only if we are willing to do everything too. Doesn’t the Spirit look like that, also? We grieve it, even if we don’t want to grieve it. We let the Devil take a foothold out of our weakness…
But that’s what God does…He lets us breathe again…