His Spirit's Power

II Timothy 1:7 NKJV:
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

As was highlighted yesterday, God's way of life, his power and his nature are understood through the help of His Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that is God's guarantee of our eternal destination. If then the Spirit of God is the one and key component of our successful journey on earth, we must seek Him, find him and make our hearts a habitable place for Him.
Today's passage again talks about the influence of the Holy Spirit. He is God's gift to as many as have received Christ and his presence comes with some inherent packages. When he comes, he awakens the fruit of true love in us. We stop trying to get people to be what God alone can be for us. We stop striving by our own strength to accomplish what only His presence can accomplish. When he comes, he gives us power to do what we ourselves know we couldn't have done by ourselves. He also gives us a sound mind, one that is totally yielded and dependent and thirsty for God. These are just a few of the things that the Holy Spirit's presence will accomplish in our lives.
This calls for a honest, insightful examination of our lives. Does the Spirit of God rule our hearts or have we compartmentalized our lives, giving God some areas but retaining control over the others? Are we Christians who still exercise fear over the issues of life, fretting over the details God has promised to take care of. Are we still striving in our strength, wisdom and human ability, trying to accomplish by our power, what God himself has said can only be accomplished by His Spirit?
These are questions we need to ask ourselves and get honest answers to. We need to check the contents of our hearts and be sure that the presence of God is fully in control there. Otherwise, we are setting ourselves up for a lifetime of fear, regrets and despair. The world has issues that the world itself has no answers to. Only the Creator himself, whose words formed and established the earth, can answer life's riddles and bring us to his pre-determined good end.
Rejoice in the Spirit's power and enablement, because his time of favour is here.