14 day plan

The Purpose of Pentecost

Day 6 of 14

CSB

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Reflection: The freedom of the Holy Spirit

Without a doubt, one of the greatest joys I’ve found in pastoring is watching the incredible journey of transformation people go on. This truly is a work of the Holy Spirit.

The truth is, all of us are on a pathway of transformation, and we never get to a point where we can say we have “arrived” this side of eternity. However, every day, there are incremental steps we can take towards the image and glory of Christ. As we draw closer to the Lord, we find that the fruit of being in his presence is freedom! Freedom from sin, freedom from self and freedom from the mindsets and patterns that can sabotage our lives and future.

I want to encourage you, whatever you are facing right now, that the Holy Spirit is the greatest source of freedom in the universe. As you fix your eyes on Christ, the beautiful power of the Holy Spirit will begin to lead you into a bright new day!

Question: What parts of your world feel stuck and in need of transformation?

Prayer: Thank you, Jesus, for the great power of the Holy Spirit that brings freedom and liberty into my life. I recognise areas in my life that are in need of transformation and ask that you would continue to lead and mould me into the image of Christ. Amen.

© 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

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2 Corinthians 3:1-18

Living Letters

1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3You show that you are Christ’s letter, delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God — not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Paul’s Competence

4Such is the confidence we have through Christ before God. 5It is not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God. 6He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

New Covenant Ministry

7Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside, 8how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory. 10In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it. 11For if what was set aside was glorious, what endures will be even more glorious.

12Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness. 13We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from gazing steadily until the end of the glory of what was being set aside, 14but their minds were hardened. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside only in Christ. 15Yet still today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts, 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

© 2017 Holman Bible Publishers