On Grieving God’s Holy Spirit, and the Consequences

On Grieving God’s Holy Spirit, and the Consequences

The Episcopal Daily Devotions that we use each morning include prayers from Psalm 51 asking God to renew a right spirit within us, to sustain us with his bountiful spirit, and not to take his holy spirit from us. Using that prayer implies that God might take away his spirit, though someone recently observed to me how encouraging it is that God wouldn’t take the Holy Spirit away from us as he did from Saul, and as Psalm 51 presupposes he might…