Yesterday, we saw that God led Joseph by dreams (much like the Old Testament Joseph!). Today, let’s look at Simeon, a man in touch with the Spirit:

Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.” (Luke 2.25 – 32, ESV)

I’ve written before about the Spirit working through those who attend to him. See The First Oops followed by A Word of Knowledge. My very first blog when I started daily blogging, January 6, 2019, was about Simeon’s response.

Daily guidance from God is available – sometimes spectacularly through a dream or a vision but most of the time through the still small voice of the Spirit, available to us just as it was to Simeon.

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. (Isaiah 30.21, ESV)

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. (Romans 8.14, ESV)