Today, I am reading and commenting on John 14-16.

Today’s passage teaches some important lessons.  It starts with Jesus telling His disciples, and us, that they, and we, know the way to where He is going.  When His disciples asked Him how they could know the way, He replied that He was the way, the truth, and the life.  Jesus goes on to tell us that those who believe in Him will do the works He had been doing, and even greater works.   Overall, I want to note that today’s passage is a very difficult passage, starting with that right there.  I don’t know that I have done the works which Jesus did when He walked with His disciples, and if I have not, does that mean that I am not truly in Him?

Fortunately, Jesus goes on from saying we will do works like His that He will ask the Father, and the Father will give us another advocate.  That advocate will be the Spirit of Truth.  And who will He ask the Father to send that advocate to and for? Those who live Him.  He tells us that if we love Him, we will follow His commands.  Repeatedly, Jesus had told His disciples that His command was that we love each other and that we love our neighbor as ourselves.  The Advocate, the Spirit of Truth, will remind us what those commands are and teach us how to follow them.  And Jesus answered the question I asked at the end of the first paragraph today by telling us not to let our hearts be troubled, telling us not to be afraid.  Jesus is in the Father, and we are in Him.  In order to bear the fruit which Jesus desires us to bear, we must remain in Him.  Here is the key, as we remain in Him, and His words remain in us, everything we ask of God will be done.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.