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Updated: June 15, 2025
It is an amazing thing that he should have done so a freak, we may call it, of the wind of genius, which bloweth where it listeth and singles out one in ten thousand to find a fitting speech for the dumb thought and feeling of the rest. But we need not base the claim of Carmichael to the attention of the public merely on considerations of this sort. His work speaks for itself.
"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth;" so was it with the awakening among the Bechwanas at the Kuruman. There seemed no apparent cause for the intensity of feeling that was now displayed by these people. Men, who had scorned the idea of shedding a tear, wept as their hearts were melted.
If they cannot renew themselves, they must be renewed; and there is no power that can reach them but that mysterious energy of the Holy Spirit which like the wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth.
'In all beauty, says Bacon, 'there is some strangeness of proportion, and of those who are born of the spirit of those, that is to say, who like himself are dynamic forces Christ says that they are like the wind that 'bloweth where it listeth, and no man can tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth. That is why he is so fascinating to artists.
Door nor window of his being had a lock to it! All of them were always on the swing to the wind that bloweth where it listeth. Upon occasions when most would seek refuge from the dark sky and gusty weather of trouble, by hiding from the messengers of Satan in the deepest cellar of their hearts, there to sit grumbling, Polwarth always went out into the open air.
Then the wind what a mysterious, awful, miraculous thing the wind seemed, always moving, yet no one knew how; with immense power and force, and yet not to be seen; as our blessed Lord himself said, 'The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. Then and this is very curious they fancied that the wind was a sort of pattern, or type of the spirit of man.
It seemed as if the power of God overshadowed only a certain spot, and that all within that were under Divine influence for the time, though all were not converted. They acknowledged, however, that they felt the Spirit's power striving with them, and they knew afterwards that it was withdrawn. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." Open-Air Services, 1852.
"It comes to me," said Connie, "like forgiveness when I was a little girl and was naughty. I used to feel just like that." "It is the same kind of thing I feel," I said "as if life from the Spirit of God were coming into my soul: I think of the wind that bloweth where it listeth.
Again, remember, 'that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. If there be life given it must be kindred with the life which is its source. Reflect upon those profound words of our Lord: 'The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth.
Shall I tell you again what I told my wheel, and my wheel told you, and you have just told me without knowing it? 'Please, ma'am. Then the lady began to sing, and her wheel spun an accompaniment to her song, and the music of the wheel was like the music of an Aeolian harp blown upon by the wind that bloweth where it listeth. Oh, the sweet sounds of that spinning wheel!
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