When We Grieve Elohim (GOD)

When We Grieve the Holy Spirit: Transitioning From Enemies to Friends of ELOHIM (GOD)
by py thomas
© April 25, 2014

³⁰And do not grieve the Set-apart Spirit of Elohim, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and dis- pleasure, and uproar, and slander be put away from you, along with all evil. ³²And be kind towards one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Elohim also forgave you in Messiah. (Ephesians 4:30-32 TSB)

When we grieve at the loss of a loved one the anguish and  pain is almost unbearable to the degree that without ELOHIM (GOD), we would have not ability to be comforted.  ELOHIM comforts us through His word and other people.

³ Praised be God, Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, compassionate Father, God of all encouragement and comfort; ⁴ who encourages us in all our trials, so that we can encourage others in whatever trials they may be undergoing with the encouragement we ourselves have received from God.

⁵ For just as the Messiah’s sufferings overflow into us, so through the Messiah our encouragement also overflows. ⁶ So if we undergo trials, it is for your encouragement and deliverance; and if we are encouraged, that should encourage you when you have to endure sufferings like those we are experiencing. ⁷ Moreover, our hope for you remains staunch, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, you will also share in the encouragement. (2 Corinthians 1:3-7)

Likewise, when Scripture tells us not to grieve the Holy Spirit "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." (Ephesians 4:30) , in all honesty we do that very thing.  Just how do we grieve the Holy Spirit, which is the spirit of ELOHIM.  We see from the very beginning that ELOHIM was grieved about our rebellion towards Him – our sin.  Yet, His sorrow and grief are just as weighty  as is His love for us.    The Holy Spirit’s grief is tremendous, because it’s at the point of our rebellion of sin, that we  instantly become His enemy versus His righteousness. 

 “And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.” (Genesis 6:6)

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them. (Isaiah 63:10)

Yet ELOHIM loves us so much, He has poured out His love towards us through His plan of redemption to restore us back to Him – no longer separated from Him – no longer being enemies, but counted as friends.  Yeshua said that those who follow Him and obey the Father, are His friends.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another. (John 15:13-17)

How grieved are you when your best friend or loved one has been consumed in tragedy to the point of death?  The consequence of sin is death; and it will consume us to the point of both physical and spiritual death as well.  Just as we are consumed with grief due to the death of a loved one, the Holy Spirit is grieved when we choose to sin instead of obeying ELOHIM’s instructions for living a holy (set-apart) life unto Him. Each time we choose to sin, we are in essence choosing evil over righteousness – death over life.  In other words, we have rejected the pure, saving, cleansing and forgiving shed blood of Yeshua which is the blood transfusion that can usher one into eternal life and reconciliation back to the Father, ELOHIM.

Being apart from ELOHIM means separated for eternal death.   Reconciled back to  ELOHIM through Yeshua the Messiah means forgiveness of sin and eternal life.  Which shall you choose – life or death?

But Elohim proves His own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Messiah died for us. ⁹Much more then, having now been declared right by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. ¹⁰For if, being enemies, we were restored to favor with Elohim through the death of His Son, much more, having been restored to favor, we shall be saved by His life. ¹¹And not only this, but we also exult in Elohim through our Master Messiah, through whom we have now received the restoration to favor. (Romans 5:8-11TSB)