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The Spirit of Truth

If you love me, you will keep my commandments. I will ask the Father, and he will send another Companion, who will be with you forever. This Companion is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world can’t receive because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be with you.

—John 14:15-17

Truth, nothing but the truth, so help me God. That thing we swear in courtrooms is an elusive notion. Your truth may not be the same as someone else’s. It doesn’t mean one of you is right and one is wrong; it means there may well be separate truths.

When Jesus sent us the “Companion,” who is the Spirit of Truth, he did so that we might know truth and be set free from the little prisons we slip into in our own minds. He didn’t just lend us the Spirit of Truth, he gave us a lifelong companion who would live with us forever. You know him and you recognize him, because you received Jesus.

We live with the Spirit of Truth. We may or may not wish to always know the truth, because we sometimes prefer to bend it or shape it to fit what works best for us, but we have the option of seeking real truth. We have the opportunity always to replace our own thoughts with those that line up more precisely with the One who shares life with us all the time and knows us better than we know ourselves.

May truth prevail in all that you do today.

QUIET THE WAVES

Lord, thank you for your precious Spirit of Truth. Thank you for giving me the freedom to always tell the truth as your Spirit guides me. Amen.