# 222 Today’s Living Word comes from Mark 1:10 “And immediately coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove”
Jesus climbs out of the water and the very heavens open up! Whenever we read of the heavens opening up in Scripture we know that God is about to reveal Himself in a special way.
The prophet Ezekiel saw the heavens open up and God revealed many things to him in visions. (Ezekiel 1:1) When Stephen was being stoned to death, the heavens opened up and He saw the risen Son of God standing at the right hand of God.(Acts 7:56)
Both men were given a special grace from God for their circumstances. Jesus was about to begin His earthly ministry as the Christ, the Son of the Living God. In His deity, He did not need special grace from God, but in His humanity, He needed the fullness of the grace of God in order to carry out His mission of redemption.
The Holy Spirit always graciously comes to us from God. He brings His gifts to equip us and empower us for the tasks that He has set before us. Jesus yielded perfectly to the Holy Spirit, we, only in part, but the more we learn to yield to the operation of the Holy Spirit in our lives through His means of grace (the Sacraments and His Word) the more fruitful our work will be.
I’m Duane Matz and that’s today’s Living Word.
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