Yet He Is Mercy

"It is not that we corrupt Him but that He cleanses us."

THE HOLY SPIRIT wrote the Word of God, and the Holy Spirit conceived the Word of God. He is why the Word (rhema) is spoken, why the Word (logos) is written, and why the Word became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). He is the anointing upon the Anointed One. His power made the Anointed One, the Christ. He is why a human body could carry the weight of the sins of the world. He is how the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, could live sinless and be holy.

He is the HOLY Spirit, and notice I included the article “the.” Notice also, He is a spirit and not a ghost. Now, those two things said, He loves His children and condemns no one for either one, but there is no other Holy Spirit, He is THE ONE. God is Spirit, we are told in John 4:24. “Spirit” means “breath.” With His breath we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28). With His breath, we are made holy.

What does the word “holy” mean? What is “holiness” anyway? God is Holy. He is purity of thought, of action, and of justice. Just think, if nothing and no one was holy, then the standard of truth could be moved to suit us, but it can’t. What a man is cannot be adjusted. What a woman is to a man cannot be adjusted. What is justice cannot be adjusted. Truth as God speaks it cannot be measured and reweighed. James 1 tells us there is no evil in Him, no temptation to it even. He is pureness of strength and power and complete self-control.

“A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.” (Proverbs 11:1)

“A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.” (Proverbs 16:11)

We, on the other hand, fall into recreating justice all the time. We measure it by what a man sees and decides, but only God’s point-of-view is true. See Jesus’ death, as an example. Men decided He must die, offended by His claiming to be God. They convicted Him using lying accusations and had Him condemned by forcing political powers to accede. They did not see Him as Savior, nor, despite their knowledge of prophecy, have revelation of that moment in time. They saw the miracles He did and, viewing people’s healing and freedom from sickness, were angry instead. After His death, they bribed the Roman soldiers guarding the tomb to lie about what they witnessed.

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.” (Matthew 23:29-31)

But God is holy. A holy God lived on an unholy earth among unholy people in order to die a holy death as the Lamb pictured in the temple’s holy sacrifices. His holiness has made us holy, because we believe.

Holiness is not a set of rigid rules we must kowtow to or God is angry. That was the rules of Old Covenant Law, which God’s holy sacrifice fulfilled. God’s heart was to make a way to forever extend His mercy and to do it through His pure standard of speaking and acting. Only God could do what Jesus did. And He took our sins and removed them forever through the power and Presence of the Holy Spirit. Just as, one day, He will cleanse this earth of all sin and death. With a breath, all will become new, our sins, past and future, dissolved forever.

The Holy Spirit lives with us and walks among us. Psalm 139 says you can’t escape Him. He is even in the depths of hell. He is here on the earth where there is much sin, much hate, yet He remains holy. Jesus hears our words, knows our actions, what filth some people do, yet He is holy. The Father chooses to remove burdens from our shoulders and weights from off our necks, those things we’ve wallowed in, and to pour out His Breath upon us. He touches us, yet He is holy.

It is not that we corrupt Him but that He cleanses us. He is that holy. He is the standard of purity which cannot be raised or lowered, cannot be manipulated, cannot be defeated. There is no failure in Him, no lack of wisdom, no misunderstanding. Nothing is impossible to Him, for He is holy. Because He is holy, He is gentle and kind, never condemning, never hateful, never spiteful. Instead, He is compassion. Compassion is the outgrowth of His holiness. He is purity of love. His holy love poured out upon us, and in compassion, lifted us up to His height, to sit with Him at His Standard.

He made us holy. We must choose to live like Him.

“Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (Exodus 15:11)

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, WHATSOEVER THINGS ARE PURE, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” (Philippians 4:8)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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