Today is Pentecost, the celebration of the gift of God’s Spirit to the church and to us. And the question we must ask ourselves and the church is this: Are we Spirit full or Spirit foul? In other words, is God’s gift to the Hebrews and to the early Christian church a gift we have received or rejected, nurtured or ignored? Is the Spirit of God in us?

In many ways the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost is not an entirely new act of God. The gift of the Spirit is not exclusively a New Testament occurrence. In the book of Isaiah we find the promise of the Spirit, a promise that was fulfilled in part in Old Testament times but came into full bloom on the day of Pentecost.

Today I invite you on a journey through time, a journey that begins with the ancient days of Isaiah’s prophecy. It is a journe…