This week, we have been spending a lot of time thinking about the Holy Spirit and the celebration of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Trinity (God, Jesus and Holy Spirit) and is a little bit mysterious. We have been brainstorming who the Holy Spirit is, and what he/she/it might look like. We don’t have any answers yet… but here is a little explanation of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is a real person who came to live within Jesus Christ’s followers after Jesus rose from the dead and ascended to heaven (You can read the story of Pentecost in Acts 2). Jesus told His apostles…

“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.17 He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you. 18 “When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.”      John 14: 16-18                      

The Holy Spirit is not a shadow, or invisible “force”. He is a person equal in every way with God the Father and God the Son. He is considered to be the third member of the Trinity. He is a friend, someone that can help us be our best person that we can be.

In the comments section, write a short paragraph of what YOU think the Holy Spirit is. Can you think of some metaphors of what the Holy Spirit could be in your life? For example: if the Holy Spirit gives us power to be the best person that we can be, the Holy Spirit could be like petrol to a car, because a car cannot reach it’s true potential without petrol.