When you were a child what were some things that made you feel comforted when you felt nervous or scared? For some children it might be a special blanket, or a teddy bear. For a very young child it might be a pacifier or their baby bottle. A child might wake up in the middle of the night and in their half awake state might be nervous and scared in the dark, but as soon as they grab onto the thing that gives them comfort they are set at ease, and fall back asleep once again.
When you feel “comfort” it means you feel the easing or alleviation of the feeling of grief or distress.”
Two thousand years ago, Jesus left this Earth to go to be back with His Father in Heaven. But before He left, He left us a promise, that He would return once again.
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:1-3
We are waiting earnestly for the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Like a child looking for their blanket or pacifier to comfort them, we have been left something to comfort us until Christ’s return. The Holy Spirit. We have been given a small piece of Heaven to have inside our hearts to help us, guide us, and comfort us until that special day.
“And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:23
This world is a dark and lonely place, filled with many evils. Without a light to guide us, it is impossible for us to find our way to eternal salvation. Thankfully, we have been left the Holy Spirit to help us through, lighting up our path and giving us comfort as we walk each day.
“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” John 14:16-20
In the parable of the virgins in Matthew 25 they needed to have oil in their lamps so they could see in the dark when the time came to meet the bridegroom. Five of them had that oil, while the other five didn’t, and the ones who did were the ones who went in to the marriage. We must be filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit, so that we may too be ready when the time comes.
Jesus is returning soon, but until He does we have…
The Comforter.
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 