Good Morning Friends,
“If you love me, you will obey what I
command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to
be with you forever -- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and
will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” (John
14:15-18)
The world is a lonely place. Even when we are
in a crowd, there is still a sense of loneliness. Not even those closest to us
fully understand us. Perhaps they would if we would fully share ourselves with
them, but something causes us to hold back. There are places in our minds and
our hearts that we hide from everyone else. We do it for many reasons. Sometimes
it is a matter of embarrassment or shame and the sense that no one will love
and respect us if they know those places in our lives. Sometimes it is fear
that if we reveal that tender spot it will only lead to hurt. I’m sure there
are other reasons, too, some too deep even to discuss.
There is One from whom we need not and cannot
hide even the deepest secret places of our hearts and minds. He lives with us,
in fact, He lives in us. He is God’s gift to us, the fulfillment of the promise
of Jesus that He would never leave us alone. Even as Jesus says just a few
verses earlier that He was in the Father and the Father was in Him, so also the
Father is in the Spirit, and so is Jesus.
Jesus has not left us alone, He never will. The
One He has sent is a part of Himself. The Spirit loves us like Jesus loves us,
with the same unselfish and sacrificial love. The Spirit knows us, because He
is in even those deepest secret places of our lives, nothing is hidden from
Him.
Scary – somewhat. Embarrassing – a little. Most
of all – comforting. Someone knows me – fully. That Someone still loves me –completely!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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