This is the day Christians around the world celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.  Peter Leithart recently posted an “exhortation” for the day that sums so many wonderful things.  He begins the piece with a simple but always pertinent question:

What do we have when we have the Spirit? We have everything.

All the treasures of God, hidden away in the depths of God from before the foundation of the world, become ours through the Spirit of Pentecost. He is the Gift from the Father and the Son, the Gift above all gifts, the Gift containing all gifts. At Pentecost, God gives God: What more could we ask?

From there, Leithart revisits key moments and actions of the Holy Spirit throughout the biblical narrative.

The Spirit is the Spirit of tongues. He reverses the confusion of Babel and gathers the nations to confess one Lord with one mouth. He is the Spirit of prophecy, who goes from Moses to fill others, who catches up Saul among the prophets, who comes at Pentecost so that old men will see visions and young men dream dreams. Filled with the Spirit, David speaks in rhyme, for he is the Spirit of poetry, the Muse of the Triune God. Relying on the Spirit, the apostles testify to kings and governors; he is the rhetoric of God. Through the Spirit, Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon break into song, for the Spirit is the music of God.

He ends the piece with simple commands taken from the biblical text pointing out the personal possibility of living with the Spirit.

So: Follow the Spirit. Walk in the rhythm of the Spirit. Sing in the Spirit. Pray with the Spirit. Be filled with the Spirit. Sow to the Spirit. Reap from the Spirit. Preserve the unity of the Spirit. Be borne by the Spirit. Cling to the Spirit. Breathe in the Spirit, and breathe him out. Drench yourself in the Spirit. Drink the Spirit, and be drunk by him.

Take a few minutes and read the whole thing here.  You’ll be glad you did.  A wonder way to celebrate the day.