"I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you."
That you may remember.
We are a forgetful people. We forget many things, often. Not only are we forgetful, we have a tendency to remember all the wrong things.
Our memory is certainly in need of renewal, restoration, renovation and so on.
When we speak of the Holy Spirit, we often think about the 7 gifts or the 9 fruits and we busy ourself with trying to figure them out or recognize their manifestations and what happens in the process is we get distracted and lose sight of what the primary gift of the Spirit is all about.
The Gift of the Holy Spirit is about reminding us of what Jesus says and does (Jn 14). The gifts and fruits are valid in so far as they conform us to Christ and move us to be as he is in life.
May the gift of the Spirit strengthen and fortify our memory that it will not be short term or self-centered but reach all the way back to Christ and make present again and again the beauty of God in the face of Christ in the way we live.
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