“I will not leave you comfortless: I will
come to you.”
SIH’s Think On
These Things: John 14:16-18
John
14:16-18 (KJV)
16) And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for
ever;
17)
[Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the
world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18)
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
One of the most precious
and vital promises that our Lord gives to His followers is His promise to
supply a Comforter to us….
“And
I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide
with you for ever; [Even]
the Spirit of truth;”
Here, we can clearly see
Jesus concern for those He was soon to leave behind following His
ascension. He secures through His Father,
One that would continue Christ’s ministry of comforting. What does the ministry of comforting
entail? Christ, as our Comforter, stood beside
His people counseling, making intercession, intervening and sharing their
burdens. This would be the ministry of
this new Comforter as well.
The Comforter that
Christ was speaking of was the Holy Spirit.
He is the One who was active in revealing God’s truth to mankind through
inspiring the original authors of the Bible and enabling each one of us to
understand the teachings of the Word.
“whom
the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you.”
The Comforting Spirit is
given exclusively to God’s people. The
lost world does not perceive nor recognize Him.
God’s people have a
personal relationship with the Spirit, recognizing Him, living with Him and having
Him live within us. The indwelling
Spirit is one of the greatest marks of the work of salvation… But
ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And
if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is]
life because of righteousness. But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren,
we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Rom 8:9-14 (KJV)
“I
will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”
Christ now identifies
Himself as the Comforter that was to come.
Since both Christ and the Spirit are persons of the Godhead, we can
understand how it can be that Christ is actually present in us in the person of
the Holy Spirit.
What a magnificent comfort
it is to understand that we have God, Himself, indwelling us in the person of
the Holy Spirit. This means that we will
never be alone. We will never be without
aid. We will never have to bear our
burdens alone. Let us thank Him today
for this marvelous gift, His accompanying Spirit.
May the
Lord bless us as we “Think On These Things”.
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