The Sovereign Spirit Blows Where He Wills

In recent weeks, both in sermons and in my reading, I have bumped up against John 3. Or, more aptly, John 3 has met me like a mighty rushing wind. And one truth in particular is on me, not least because I'm aware personally and culturally of how little we get this, we who try to manage and domesticate the absolutely sovereign and free God in countless ways. Without success, of course. He is God. He is the Lord. He does as he pleases. And none forces his hand.

Here's a word about a word from Jesus in John 3 from Thomas Brooks: "The Spirit is free in the works of conversion, and, as the wind, he blows when, where, and how he pleases" (Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, p. 225).