I had never really paid attention to the fact that the Holy Spirit in Christianity is also referred to by very opposite-seeming symbols in the Bible.
Jesus, of course, is famously referred to as both a lion and a lamb.
God, the Father, is referred to as a mother hen who wants to gather her chicks under her wing, and also the Great Judge who will condemn to hell those who choose not to follow His Son.
But I hadn’t picked up on, until this past Pentecost Sunday, that the Holy Spirit is referred to both as a dove when Jesus is baptized, and a tongue of fire when He comes to fill the disciples after Jesus went back to heaven.
We serve a complex God who is able to be who He needs to be to help us in all situations.
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