Acts 2 (cont.)
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear. - (33)
When the Holy Spirit does a work, the human person through whom the Spirit works does not claim credit for the work of God. Rather, we are quick to give God credit and glory for this wondrous thing, and to proclaim Jesus' preeminence in it all.
God is the one who has prepared every work in which we now walk, and God alone gets the credit for the good works he does.
There are potential traps all over this, though: false humility, undertaking things of ourselves rather than by the Spirit, failing to humbly submit to the authority of Scripture and the Church and claiming the authority of the Holy Spirit for our disobedience, just to name three. How are we to know? By the fruit of the Spirit! Particularly, impatience and anxiety over the outcome we desire are indicators that we are acting of ourselves rather than in the Spirit.
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