Do Not Grieve God But Seek To Please Him
Ephesians 4:30, ‘Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.’
In these last days, let us repent for our cleansing, let us not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom we are sealed for the day of redemption.
V30(Message), ‘Don’t grieve God. Don’t break his heart.’
V30(NLT), ‘And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.’
God’s Holy Spirit is never angry with us but is grieving for us! Let us examine ourselves, the areas where we are not listening to the Holy Spirit! When we instruct our children and when we warn them in love - ‘do not go this way, this is wrong way!’, and they do not listen in disobedience and end up in a tragedy, as Parents, we become grieved and become sad about it.
Apostle Paul is saying here, ‘do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by the way you live’! Why is our God’s Holy Spirit grieving for His children? – ‘It is by seeing the spiritual condition of His Children’s lives! By the way His children are living at their homes, at their workplaces, by the way they are dealing with others!’ The Holy Spirit is not seeing any fruit in His children, by the way they are living but they are manifesting the deeds of flesh, in their Christian lives and this is why the Holy Spirit of God is grieving for His children. We need to understand God’s love for us.
We know that Ephesian Church is a godly, matured Church. The message in Ephesians is divided into two parts:
- What God has done for us in love – this is the foundation of Christian Life, our position as a believer in Christ. We need to understand the wonderful things that God has done for us. He chose us in Christ, has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Chapters 1-3, we see that God has done everything for us through Christ.
- How our life should be on this foundation. How the superstructure of our Christian life, on the foundation should be, is seen in Chapters 4-6. Here we see Ephesians 4:30, ‘.do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live’.