According to our Pentecostal faith, the Holy Spirit is an outpouring of God. This outpouring embraces the souls and lifts them up into the divine sphere.
But this outpouring is also not an outpouring. We associate the coming of the Holy Spirit with time and holidays, as Jesus taught us, who started history and promised to come back for us. But we must know that God is One - there is not and cannot be any other entity apart from Him.
His grace is that we can experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which we are also constantly part of.
We should know about ourselves and believe that we are his image, he created us in his own image.
Hell is when we turn away from the divine image, isolate ourselves, try to become gods, homo deus ourselves and immerse ourselves in an ill-conceived individualistic self-worship. We leave the community, the roots, our faith and our nation, because we ourselves are capable of creation and freedom.
After all, if we got both of our abilities from him - let's live with him, so to speak.
Let's live with it, but don't live without it. Once I was doing a report in a small village and I talked to an old farmer who said that when they went to the border
first they asked God's blessing for all their work.
They knew exactly that only work done in His spirit, with humility and diligence, would bear fruit. They always sought the guidance of the Holy Spirit, both at work and in church, family and community life.
When the fabric of common faith is broken, when we close our hearts from the holy outpouring and community, that is hell. As the famous existentialist proudly says: "hell is the other person." (Sartre) At the same time, he sets the confused world on its way!
Of course, it's hell if you immerse yourself in your own false reflection and try to act according to what you see there. And what is in this individualistic reflection: self-control, selfishness, arrogance, self-belief, subjugation and defeat of the other.
God's outpouring offers a continuous relationship with him. It is present everywhere, like air, it is impossible to live without it: it offers meekness, peace, goodness, the sustaining power of the community. If we recognize his image in all of this, then instead of wars, strife, corruption, discarding the rules of creation (see gender madness), the Golden Age would be thanks to us, since we live in it continuously, we all live in the palm of God.
Then the other person would not be hell, but heaven!
It's Pentecost! Pour out, God! Let your will be done!
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