Wind Knocked Out Of Your Sail

 Last Wednesday in her midweek musings Revd Lyn began by saying "It's amazing how the Lord can use the same thing to say something quite different to different people, according to their need," She then went on to explain how the image of a field of cobwebs had spoken to her husband Dave and then how it had spoken to herself. She finished by asking what does this image say to you? 

The image spoke to me of a sail on a boat that has suddenly caught some wind. As the wind fills the sail, it begins looks like the shape of a wing.  

Of course, you can't see the wind filling the sail of the boat but you know it is there as the boat picks up speed.

Yesterday I was out walking with Archie when he suddenly stopped and said: "what's that nana? It was the sound of the wind rustling what few leaves there were left on the trees. How do you explain the wind to a 2 year

 old who can feel and hear it but can't see it? 

I am reminded of the Holy Spirit. The first time the Holy Spirit turns up in the bible is as wind. Like the wind, the Holy Spirit is invisible and unpredictable. Just as a boat needs the wind to fill sail so

that it can move along the water, we also need the holy spirit to come and fill us. Life without the Holy Spirit is like having the wind knocked out of your sail. Having our lives filled with Holy Spirit equips us for a life of service, helping us to build up the body of Christ here on earth.