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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 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. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

 

As I read these verses, I feel the heaviness and the lightness of the words.

 

The more I read scripture, the more I pray, the more I support Living Lord Lutheran and the disciples there and the brothers and sisters (even if they don’t know it) in Christ, outside our church, the more the words in the verse carry my sail.

 

Unfortunately, the flip side, the more I follow false idols and turn from God’s Words, the more the words become a weight, an anchor.

 

As a Sinner and a Saint, I believe that is why the words carry both a weight and wind to my sails.

 

Dear Lord: I would rather sail with your tailwinds and soar with the eagles than to be anchored down, withering in my own misery, by not following you.

 

Thomas J Frase

thomasfrase1226@aol.com

 

Prayer Concern: Help us listen to God’s words and let them dwell in us as he dwells in us. Help us to choose the wind in His words.