OUR ONLY GUIDE

By Rick Mathes

John 16:13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

We can only spend the currency we have and if we haven’t any good sense naturally, we will continue to do dumb things. There needs to be a turn-around but if we don’t have it on the inside we can’t display it on the outside. Satan exploits this deficiency by leading us on the paths that ad is to destruction as Psalm one clearly warns. We need a guide to quiet waters or righteousness because we don’t have a clue apart from Jesus and the tender care of the Holy Spirit, onto pleasant paths.

Some paths lead to self-destruction much to the perverted joy of the hounds of hell. I refuse to lower myself to their level and join them in making my decisions. Yes we have “stinkin thinkin” but it all changes when we have the mind of Christ. Our five senses hone in on Him and we become His skin and He then makes His life-choices through us. This has the perfect effect because of the only perfect cause in His essence but in our mind and actions.

With the care of the Spirit of Truth we walk in paths of good things because our decisions and conformed to the mind of Christ as He intended it to be to the end of time. That’s an interesting thought! What is after the end of time as we perceive it?

I’m convinced that with the wise counsel of our own personal Advocate, the Lord’s number one ambassador, the Holy Spirit. Who but God and His thoughts could contain more wisdom? The Logos became man and walked and talked among His own creation. I can’t get my mind around that concept but He can and did. He healed death and defeated the legions of hell when He stepped from the tomb, ascended into heaven and left His Holy Spirit.

And where do we find this dynamite of the heavens but as a small, sweet and still within us. In the midst of all uncertainties we have the only reliable One at our beck, call and touch. WE cannot lose our way when we follow the Way into all truth. Pilate had the right question but on the Holy Spirit has the right truth until He comes again and He will do that soon. Look upon Him and be saved!