Holy Spirit’s Power to Pursue the Lost Ones You Love
You ache for the people you care about who don’t know God. But you can’t force the lost ones you love to turn to Jesus. Let Holy Spirit empower you in humility, empathy and kindness to win the lost.
When someone we care about doesn’t know Jesus, we might feel concern, confusion, impatience, fear, downright frustration. We might want the situation to change . . . yesterday. We might feel like trying to push a little—to try ourselves to initiate a change. We might want to try to grab for some control—as we become aware of how little control we have.
Jesus didn’t use His power as God himself to force anything. Rather, He emptied Himself of His heavenly powers and relied upon His Father God and Holy Spirit to empower everything He did—just as we must. Our Father God and Holy Spirit empowered Jesus’ humility, his empathy, his kindness—and these characteristics made Him magnetic. These characteristics drew people to Him. These characteristics draw people to anyone who’s willing to possess them.
Humility and empathy and kindness and patience are so rare in this culture—and they are enticing, captivating.