We are told in Holy Scripture, at its commencement in the Book of Genesis, that the Spirit of God moved over the waters. The Spirit of God signifies the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, the third person in the Blessed Trinity, who thus took part in preparing our world, or globe we are on, to be the habitation of man. It proves His power, and His co-operation with God the Father and God the Son, for our well-being in this life. He co-operated to make man in His own image, and so the Holy Spirit co-operates still to fit us for eternal life, and restore that image in us. He keeps down our corrupt inclinations, reduces into order pleasing to God our natural appetites and dispositions, subdues our will to God's will, forms and cherishes, and causes to grow our graces; and brings and enables us to use our talents, whether many or few, for the glory of God, of Christ, and the good of our fellow creatures. He makes each of us, if we will let him, a new creature in Christ Jesus. Yes. Observe it is, if we will let him. Many will not let Him, but grieve Him, resist Him, and drive Him from them. Let none of us so sin against God the Holy Ghost and our own happiness. Cherish this Holy Spirit by prayer and watchfulness. Keep in continual mind that: If by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live; for whosoever are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God, and often say:
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire;
Thou, the Anointing Spirit art,
Who dost Thy seven-fold gifts impart.
Thy blessed unction from above
Is comfort, life, and fire of love;
Enable with perpetual light,
The dullness of our blinded sight.
Keep far our foes; give peace at home;
Where Thou art guide, no ill can come.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp