We Await

I celebrate the birth of Christ because He changed our world forever. No Hollywood prayers to Baby Jesus nonsense for me. He promised that it would be better for humankind if He went to be with the Father. That was hard for the disciples, who were blessed to know Him personally, to grasp and understand. There are times it is even hard for us to comprehend. His promise runs along the vein of giving us an Advocate, a Helper, a Mystery hidden throughout the ages and now revealed.

In John 14:16-17 Jesus said,  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.  This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.

The fact that the Father will send anything Jesus asks of him is almost too wonderful to comprehend. He says He is asking on our behalf and that amazes me!

 Jesus assures us He will be with us through the Spirit of Truth, the Advocate, the Helper from on high. Then He goes on to declare that we will know this Spirit of Truth because "he abides with you, and he will be in you." Inhabited by a Spirit from on high! Beats Halloween tales ALL to pieces in truth, holiness and righteousness!


In John 14:26 He continues with  "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you." This truly holy and powerful Spirit will help us and remind us of all that Jesus says to us. That is good news indeed to the weary mind of a senior citizen!

As far as the mystery, St. Paul declares in Colossians 1:25-26  "I became (the Church's) its servant according to God's commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,  the mystery that has been hidden throughout the ages and generations but has now been revealed to his saints." You can almost hear the drum roll ....

Colossians 1:27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.  And suddenly I am in awe of God, the Star, the Babe in the manger, the plan of God for all generations and ages, the fact that He loves us so much that His Holy Spirit wants to come through us via Jesus and live in us.