APRIL 23, 2013
Now
I See
Read: John 14:15-27
The Helper, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He
will teach you all things, and
bring to your remembrance all things that
I said to you. —John 14:26
Deborah
Kendrick loves to attend Broadway musicals even though she is
blind and always
struggles to understand the setting and the movements
of the characters
onstage. Recently, however, she attended a play that
used D-scriptive, a new
technology that conveys the visual elements of
the stage production through a
small FM receiver. A recorded narration,
keyed to the show’s light and sound
boards, describes the set and the
action as it unfolds onstage. Writing
in The Columbus Dispatch, Deborah
said, “If you ask me if I
saw a show last week in New York, my answer is
yes . . . I genuinely,
unequivocally mean that I saw the show.”
Her
experience struck me as a vivid illustration of the Holy Spirit’s role in
our
understanding of God’s Word. Just before Jesus went to the cross, He
told His
followers that “the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My
name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance
all things
that I said to you” (John 14:26).
As
we open the Bible to read or study, the Spirit of Truth is with us to guide
us
into all truth (16:13). On our own we are blind, but through the guidance
of
God’s Holy Spirit we can see.
Break Thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,
As Thou didst break the loaves beside the sea.
Beyond the sacred page I seek Thee, Lord;
My spirit pants for Thee, O Living Word. —Lathbury
The Father gave the Spirit to teach us from the Word.
Source:
Our Daily Bread 2012
