The work of the Spirit is to testify of Christ

In John 15:26 “When the Friend I plan to send you from the Father comes—the Spirit of Truth issuing from the Father—he will confirm everything about me. You, too, from your side must give your confirming evidence, since you are in this with me from the start.” The Message

The Promise of the Holy Spirit has to do with HOW we live the Christian Life. The Helper is your guide, our leader, our revealer, our illuminator – The Holy Spirit is our life! tThe help we need to understand who we are and whose we are. The Holy Spirit’s the help we need to know God. The help you need to be reborn as Jesus promised. The help we need every moment of every day to live life to the full.

Have you ever visited a place for the first time; you’ve read all the travel guides, explored the trip advisor reviews of other visitors and even tried to follow a map marked with all the main places of interest, but haven’t managed to discover all the places you planned to visit. On the other hand, there is a joy in having the support of someone steeped in the local knowledge; someone who brings expert and fulsome understanding of the their locality - one who lives fully in the neighbourhood.

The promise of Jesus that he will send an advocate, a revealer and illuminator, it is not a question of us going to visit other realm, but of the Holy Spirit visiting us in our locality and transforming us and our surroundings into a renewed neighbourhood. The Holy Spirit is the true revealer .

The word “revealed” in the original Greek New Testament is apokalupsis; apo means away, and kalupsis veil, a curtain, or some type of covering. The Holy Spirit is the one who removes the veil or  the curtain so we can see clearly what is God has hidden in plain sight. The moment  see for the first time and observe what has been there all along but wasn’t evident to you — that is what the Holy Spirit comes to reveal to us.

Prayer

Come, O Spirit of Counsel, help and guide me in all my ways, that I may always do Thy holy will. Incline my heart to that which is good; turn it away from all that is evil, and direct me by the straight path of Thy commandments to that goal of eternal life for which I long. Amen.