Jesus gives us a BETTER spirit.
Jesus gives us a BETTER Helper.
Jesus gives us a BETTER Advocate.
Jesus gives us THE Holy Spirit.
Worldly spirits will not give us courage and hope to face the evil, sin, pain and suffering in the world. We may gain false hope and false courage but we will be distraught and broken when tested by existential struggles like terminal illness, heavy financial losses, broken relationships and death.
Worldly helpers may not always be there to help us when we need them.
Worldly helpers may not always be able to assist us in the way we want them to.
Worldly helpers may not be able to carry the load or meet our needs and wants the way we want our hungers and thirsts to be quenched.
Worldly advocates WILL never take away our sense of guilt for how far we are from who we want to be and how we want to live and behave.
Worldly advocates will never make us feel completely perfect, holy and righteous in the eyes of others, ourselves and God.
Jesus gives us God's Holy Spirit who is a BETTER helper, a BETTER advocate and a BETTER spirit than anyone or anything we seek assurance from in the world.
7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”
(John 15:7-15)
May we rest in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
May thoughts, our words and our actions be guided by God's spirit working in us and speaking to us.
May we always seek to obey the spirit of God as God's word reveals the truth to us OVER and AGAINST the noise and voices of how the world says we should think, speak and act.
IF we remain united to him and cling to him faithfully in our lives...Jesus gives us a better victory!
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
(John 15:33)
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