Losing to gain…

None of us like to lose a loved one….

Jesus said in John 16:20 b, “You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy”…as he was telling his disciples of his departure…he had to leave for their  good, his departure let the Counselor come …

None of us like to get hurt…but, yet doctors will say, this is going to hurt, but you will be better afterwards…ugh…I hate to hear those words and I have heard them many times in the last few years…

Or going through trials can deepen our faith…why can’t we deepen our faith without the trial? Hummm…

Things will get better…

Jesus was trying to encourage the disciples, but it still hurt, there would still be grief before the “better” part… 

John 16:5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

Psalm 30:5b weeping may stay for the night,
    but rejoicing comes in the morning.

Just think, that if Jesus hadn’t left, we would be without the Holy Spirit…I can’t even imagine…where would we get truth, understanding, counsel…who would speak to our soul?

But, of course,  God may have worked a different way…

Thank YOU…

There’s a sweet sweet spirit …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM7Iym4u9QY&list=RDCM7Iym4u9QY&start_radio=1