How to Have Your Own Personal Pentecost. What is Your Spiritual Temperature? Be the thermostat, not the thermometer.

The words thermometer and thermostat sound awfully similar but there is a huge difference. A thermometer is like a mirror, it reflects the temperature of its environment. You’ll notice that the language of a thermometer is always influenced by what is going on around it. So when the temperature of a room is hot, the reading is high- if the temperature of the room drops, the reading drops too! Thermometers are in a constant state of change, meaning they can be both “up” and “down” within minutes.

A thermostat, on the other hand, is used to regulate its environment. You may think you’ve never seen one before but that temperature control on your wall at home is exactly that! This modern word is based on two ancient Greek terms: thermo (meaning heat) and statos (which is related to words like statis and static meaning to stay the same). Which perfectly explains the role of a thermostat – to maintain a desired temperature