Last Updated on August 23, 2022 by GMC
6th Week of Easter, Wednesday
John 16:12-15
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.”
With the coming of the Messiah, Israel has been stretched far beyond its comfort zone. What words can express the mystery of God’s hidden, inner communion now being manifested to the chosen people?
The “Spirit of truth… will take from what is mine and declare it to you… Everything that the Father has is mine.” In these enigmatic statements, Jesus intimates that the Three Divine Persons are of one mind. The truth that the Spirit imparts is one and the same truth possessed by the Father and the Son.
Thus, the Spirit “will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.”
All time is present to the Spirit, for whom a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The new Israel, like the old, will continue its pilgrimage with the Lord one day at a time. With the gentle and patient guidance of the Holy Spirit, the mysteries possessed by the Triune Lord will be revealed in gradual steps.
May the Holy Spirit open all hearts and minds to the loving Presence of God. From Acts 17: God made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth. God fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for God and find God,
though indeed God is not far from any one of us.
For ‘In God we live and move and have our being,’