Wonderful Counselor

Kelli Baker

Advent Series 2023

Day Eight

Where do you need help? Our Wonderful Counselor is a helper. Counselors are helpers. As we’ve learned over the past week, counselors help navigate life’s circumstances, they help guide you, and they help provide practical tips for behavioral changes. Jesus provides the same type of help.

In today’s passage, Jesus just told his disciples that he was going away to prepare a place for them. Then he promised he would send help. Jesus promised to give his disciples a helper who would be with them always. He promised the Holy Spirit would never leave and dwell inside them.

Think about a new duty station. You typically have a sponsor who you shadow for the first few weeks. How helpful is it to have someone who knows the ins and outs of the unit and can help you learn to navigate? That is what the Holy Spirit does for believers. Except, he promised to be with us forever.

Do you rely on the Holy Spirit to produce the fruit of the Spirit inside you on a constant basis? Only the Lord knows our hearts. Only the Holy Spirit can show us where we fall short. He can help us turn and be more like Jesus. Like the psalmist in Psalm 139, ask the Spirit to reveal tpareas that need to be put off to become more like Jesus.

Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for sending the Helper to always be with us. Remind us to rely on him to help us navigate throughout the day so you may receive the glory. Amen.