When God moves

Does the wind ever move your soul?

I have a love for the wind, I always have ever sense I was a kid. I remember climbing up into the top of the willow tree in our back yard when I was 5 or 6 especially on windy days. I would climb up to the very top branches and sway with the tree in the wind. I remember going to Alaska when I was probably 13 there was a massive windstorm one night. We had just come back from fishing and I was standing on the dock leaning at what felt like a 45 degree angle into the wind letting it sustain me and hold me up. I loved riding in our family speed boat with the wind blowing in my face. I used to sit in my office in Denver doing my devotions and watch the wind blow through the leaves on the birch trees and feel like God was whispering to me. I have rediscovered a love for the wind with the scooter, Vespa, we purchased. A night ride is the best, cruising along in the dark with the wind moving through my helmet and wiping through my coat.

Scripture compares those who are moved by the Spirit of God with those who are moved by the wind. They move where ever the spirit blows, when the wind blows the changes can be very subtle or very dramatic. The wind may simply blow a scent of lavender, just a hint of what it coming next or it may blow a piece of straw through a sheet of plywood, send a title wave, completely changing the face of geography.

Gen 41 seems to be the moment then the prison door is opened and the wind, Spirit of God, blows through Joseph's life in a fresh and renewing way. He has had small breezes all along. But now he gets a true zephyr. Pharaoh can't sleep for his dreams. Joseph is remembered and is called to give the interpretation which he does through the spirit of God. Pharaoh then says, "What other man do we know who is as wise and discerning as this man who is filled with the Spirit of God." He puts Joseph in charge of the whole land of Egypt. The Spirit has just come through Joseph like a hurricane. He has gone from prisoner in charge of the prison waiting (see previous blog) for 2 years to 2nd in the kingdom, only lower than pharaoh because of the throne.

Why is Joseph chosen? Because he was a man full of the Spirit of God. Steven and 6 others are chosen in the book of Acts because they are full of the Spirit of God. Samson pulls down the house because of the Spirit of God. 12 men speak in multitudes of different languages because of the Spirit of God. Jesus comes back from the grave by the Spirit of God. And Paul promises us the same Spirit is available to us. The same wind that blew Jesus out of the grave can blow in our lives. Awakening our bones, our spirits, our hearts, our minds to the life and purposes of God.

I don't know about you, but I pray the Spirit of God would whip through not just my hair, but my heart, mind, soul, and strength. Great things will not be done by our strength or might, but by my Spirit says the Lord. Whether God is simply whispering in your ear right now or blowing with hurricane force, i pray that you would open yourself up to his leading.

When God moves, I want to be moved!