”“Loving me empowers you to obey my commands. And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Savior, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who will be to you a friend just like me—and he will never leave you. The world won’t receive him because they can’t see him or know him. But you know him intimately because he remains with you and will live inside you.“
This is the difference maker for believers - the Holy Spirit of Truth lives inside of us. When the truth is alive and lives in us, how can we bow to a lie? How can we accept anything less than the truth? We can’t. That’s what’s made the last few years so difficult for so many of us. The Spirit that lives inside of us is holy - it’s set apart and it is the Spirit of God. It’s this Holy Spirit of Truth that makes lies intolerable. It shows us the destructive nature of these lies, and I believe it is exactly what has made so many of us passionate warriors for truth. General Flynn’s movie title captures it perfectly -- we have a burning need to deliver the truth, whatever the cost. Now the Proverbs remind us to be wise with who we confront and when and how we confront them with the truth. It’s not necessarily our job to wake every person we know to the truth. But it is our job to follow the promptings of Holy Spirit and to speak the truth in obedience when and how He instructs us to do it.
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