The Holy Spirit: Chapter Analysis

In this chapter for understanding the Holy Spirit the author focuses on the Old Testament mainly in Genesis, and Palms, but he also mentions Job and other Old Testament books. The author begins by showing the reader where we first see the Holy Spirit in the Bible which is in Genesis 1:1-2. At the very beginning people who read the Bible are able to see that God and the Spirit was there when creating the world. Wright puts it as “the powerful Spirit of God in the beginning was hovering, poised for action” (Wright 14). The Spirit of God wasn’t just floating around in the “darkness and chaos, but he was in the ready position and ready for action.
Throughout this chapter the author talks on how the Israelites of the Old Testament viewed and thought about God. “The …show more content…
The Israelites, on the other hand, did not reflect or question how the world was created that was established in Genesis 1-2 “but they did reflect often, and with great wonder, on how the world is continuously sustained, restored and rejuvenated. The Israelites recognized the hand of their God in that amazing process” (Wright 19). I have never even heard people talk about how the world sustains itself, it just kind of does. This thought that everything is sustained by the Holy Spirit has never crossed my mind and to me is an amazing and also terrify thing. To think that “if it were not for the life-sustaining Spirit of God, life would be instantly extinct, dead in the dust” is kind of mind boggling (Wright 20). This idea has never been brought up to me and really shows just how much God does and how powerful he is. That “God is actively present in sustaining everything that lives and breathes on his planet, and it is precisely through his Spirit that he does this (Wright 21). It really shows that just as David said in Psalm one can never be away from God, because God is literally in