Spirit of Truth

Many people have rejected God the Father as the God of the Old Testament---although He came in the Person of Jesus Christ to reveal Who He Is in truth---the One who heals the leper, the outcast; Who lifts up from the dust the adulterous woman; who condemns those who condemned her; the One Who brings back into society the woman married 5 times and now living outside of societal norms; the One Who washes the feet of His friends on a daily basis; the One Who seeks out the sinner, the lame, the downcast, the tax-collecters, the simple.....

Jesus came primarily to embody the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of His Father in heaven.  He was no longer satisfied that men would worship---and create--a God of their imaginations and fantasies.  He wanted an I-thou, a face-to-face, encounter with mankind.  Here I am, He calls out.  You see Me; you touch Me; you do not draw back in fear of Me; you laugh with Me and cry with Me; you ask Me questions and receive true answers.  No longer do you come by "rule upon rule," but with simplicity and truth, just as you are.

"He who sees Me sees the Father," says Jesus.  Dare we believe that?  Jesus is the Spirit and the exact Image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15 & 19, 2:9).

The revelation of the face of God did not stop with the death and resurrection of Jesus, but continues today through the Spirit of Truth.  Jesus promised that if anyone loved Him, He would send to them the Spirit of Truth, who would teach us all things.  The world cannot accept Him, according to Jesus, because it "neither sees him nor knows him," but "you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.....and you will see me, and....I will show myself to [you]" (Jn. 14:15-25).

Wow!  on-going and continuous revelation of the Face of God through the Spirit of Truth.  We may not now know the true God, but who would not want the Spirit of Truth who will reveal Him to us?

Jeremiah, seeing this day in the future, proclaimed it:

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," says the Lord.

"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.

I will be their God and they will be my people.

No longer will a man teach his neighbor,

or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,'

because they will all know me,

from the least to the greatest," declares the Lord (31:33).

This is the "New Covenant" that Jesus came to bring----the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth into each man's heart, the knowledge of the Face of God inside, rather than from the outside.  And who will receive the Spirit of Truth?  

In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,

and out of gloom and darkness,

the eyes of the blind will see (Is. 29:18).

We are all blind and deaf when it comes to knowing God, but we do not have to continue in this state.  Jesus promised the Spirit of Truth to all who would love Him, and He cannot lie or deceive.  Our cry is to Him to send the promised Holy Spirit into our hearts, that we might know the truth and in knowing the truth, be set free from the lies of this world.