The second area in patterning my life after Jesus Christ is in my relationship to the Holy Spirit. What was Christ’s relationship to the Spirit? Again, one of utter dependence. Nowhere do we read that Jesus performed any miracles or uttered marvelous teachings before His baptism and filling by the Spirit. But at His baptism, at about thirty years of age, God filled Him with His Spirit without measure (John 3:34). From that point on Jesus was a dynamo of power, healing, teaching, and snatching people from death and from demon possession. Even His ability to die for us on Calvary was accomplished through the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 9:14).
That simple dependence upon the Holy Spirit was necessary on Jesus’ part for the accomplishing of God’s will through Him. It is also necessary on my part if I am to accomplish God’s will through me. God does not build His work on my personality, gifts, or abilities; He builds it on the Holy Spirit in me, with or without my abilities.
The world calls Jesus Christ a religious genius, which is nonsense. Jesus Christ, the son of God, chose to let the Holy Spirit work completely through Him. and the genius aspect of Christ’s life is simply the Holy Spirit doing the will of the Father through the obedient Son.
Victorious Christian living is not my fulfilling myself; rather, it is letting the Holy Spirit fulfill Himself in me. If Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, felt it necessary to surrender completely to the Holy Spirit, then certainly I, ingrained as I am by sin, must feel the same way.
But, thank God, it is possible! Being Spirit-filled is not a privilege of the Son that cannot be shared. Be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18) is my privilege too!
The Spirit of the lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and freedom to prisoners (Isaiah 61:1).
Daily with the King 