PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: John 14:15-24
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“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.” (John 14:17)
Let’s be honest, God is invisible to us, so is Jesus, so is the Spirit.
Yet so many people claim to ‘see’ God, to ‘know’ Jesus, to ‘feel’ the Spirit.
The key to seeing, knowing and sensing God is love and surrender.
A person with a closed heart and mind will not experience God or Jesus.
Even when Jesus was present physically, closed people rejected him.
Jesus is no longer physically with us, yet many people still experience him.
Personally, I live with the Spirit of Jesus everyday.
I can’t explain it, but I do see and know and sense Jesus with me.
He is working on me, and he is working through me.
I’ve still got a long way to go, but I sense his patience and love.
I am surrounded and supported and never alone, never on my own.
Others may not see or feel what I do, but that does not make it imaginary.
Do you sense the support of Jesus, your invisible yet very real friend?
PRAYER
Lord, I cannot explain how I sense You, but I know You are real, I know You are near. Thank You for guiding and helping me to be the person You made me to be!
What is truth and how do we find it. How can we have faith to accept that there is something beyond our death? Jesus says “I am the way to the Father” – I need to believe what Jesus says is true and trust him.
How to I grow in trusting that this is true. Jesus says he will ask the Father and “he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—the Spirit of truth.” The Apostle Paul says it is like a downpayment or deposit – Eph. 1:13/14. The HS leads me into the truth – helps me in believing – helps me in my living so we may live on purpose for Jesus – to seek His way! Thanks be to God for this gift of the Spirit! To me, now, there is no other way to really live!