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“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled”
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faith, He will speak His mysteries to us personally. Our hearts will
often burn within us as One draws near to talk with us as He did
with Enoch. Those who decide to do nothing in any line that will
displease God will know, after presenting their case before Him,
just what course to pursue. And God will give power to them for
obedience and for service, as Christ has promised.
How the Holy Spirit Makes Christ’s Work for Us Effective
Before offering Himself as the sacrificial victim, Christ thought
of the most essential gift to bestow on His followers. “I will pray the
Father,” He said, “and He will give you another Helper, that He may
abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know
Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave
you orphans; I will come to you.” While Christ was on earth, the
disciples had desired no other helper. Only when they were deprived
of His presence would they feel their need of the Spirit, and then He
would come.
The Holy Spirit is Christ’s representative, but without the person-
ality of humanity, and independent of it. Restricted by His humanity,
Christ could not be in every place personally. It was in their best
interest that He should go and send the Spirit to be His successor on
earth. No one then could have any advantage because of his location.
By the Spirit the Savior would be within reach of all.
Jesus read the future of His disciples. He saw one brought to the
execution scaffold, one to the cross, one to exile among the lonely
rocks of the sea, others to persecution and death. But in every ordeal,
He would be with them. When for the truth’s sake, believers stand at
the judgment bar of unrighteous courts, Christ stands by their side.
The reproaches that fall on them fall on Christ. When one is locked
away behind prison walls, Christ fills the heart with His love.
At all times and in all places, when we feel helpless and alone,
Jesus will send the Comforter in answer to the prayer of faith. Cir-
cumstances may separate us from every earthly friend, but no cir-
cumstance can separate us from the heavenly Comforter. He is
always at our side to sustain and cheer.
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