Is God at work today?

God is at work today, whether we like it or not, and in mysterious ways in the various branches of Christianity. It don't matter if you are Orthodox, Mennonites, Baptists, Pentecostals or Reformed Christians, God is at work at this very moment. I believe that all expressions of the Christian faith has valid variations of insight into God's revelation of Christ. It's very hard to explain these things to others, because I get a blessing from everyone I meet from other Christian denominations.
The Apostle Paul writes, The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are spiritually discerned. I Corinthians 2:14.

It never cease to amaze me when I meet with other Christians how some are really afraid of the Holy Spirit. They are afraid of what He can do for them and their churches. I strongly believe it is because the Holy Spirit will challenge or is challenging their positions of power and influential domain they hold in their congregation.

There are many Christians who finds public satisfaction when they possess a high position in a local congregation and feel threatened by the fact that when God comes in a mighty way there will be a tectonic shake up and they will lose everything they work so hard for on the ladder of church success. They are fearful of losing influential power and control. They are so fearful that a new thing may cause such a change in the church that they and the church will lose their reputation in the community.

Normally people who thrives for respect and public approval will be upset, but what God really want to do is upset their religious apple carts, tip their canoes, and mess up their theology. Isn't this what the Word of God says about the first century Christians? These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also. Acts 17:6.

Most of us Christians hate to get out of our comfort zone. We seem to have a fear of the unknown or I should say we are afraid of what the Holy Spirit can do and will do for us. We prefer to stay in the known and explainable and forget that God wants us to work by faith and revelation. We have a tendency to forget that God works in mysterious ways and not our ways, He is in fact in control.

We are afraid of the Holy Spirit's spontaneity and prefer to dwell in the predictable and the explainable. Most of our church services are controlled by the order of service and by the time indicated by the clock on the wall. Maybe this is what impedes any possibilities of the Holy Spirit working in the lives of people coming to church and in our own life? Isn't it our way of excluding and domesticating the Holy Spirit in our churches? When we do this aren't we making Him fit our programs instead of His?

Just imagine what would happen if we would just let Jesus have His way in our churches and in our lives through the Holy Spirit? I believe revival would come to town. What do you think?