Translations:DEV 17FN New Testament Survey/7/en

'Sometimes when we read the Gospels we can think, wow, how blessed were the people who got to walk with Jesus, touch him, see his face and share his adventure. We would like to have been in the story ourselves as if that would have been a superior privilege and a more certain faith. Jesus however said the opposite to his disciples. While they gathered together physically in a room he said John 16:7 “I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go I will send Him to you.” A few moments earlier Jesus had told them that he was going to the Father so that the Holy Spirit could come and dwell inside them. He explained that the only thing better than having Jesus physically with them was to have his Spirit living inside each and every one of them. Read John 14:16-20. Praise God for the privilege of his indwelling presence every bit as real yet better in that we can never be separated from him.'