Come, Holy Spirit, come…..

Does God need an invitation?  That’s not how it was on that Pentecost day.  The believers were together, and were blown away ( not quite literally) by what they experienced.  So were the people they met when they went out onto the streets.  It was Peter who preached the sermon, but the tongues of fire rested on every one of them.  God doesn’t need an invitation to come into the world, that’s already happened.  But the followers of Jesus do need to ready to respond when God calls us and if we’re ready to walk with God, wherever that might be, who knows what might happen. John’s Gospel tells us that the Spirit of God will challenge pretty much every preconceived idea that we, or others, might have about life, the universe and everything. (John 16: 8ff)  Are we ready for that?  Is the world?