Comfort in the Land of Many Tears

S: John 14

• Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
• I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. 
• If you love me, keep my commandments. 
• I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever: the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. 
• I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. 
• Because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 
• One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.
• Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
  

O: We live in this “land of many tears” but Jesus is here for us. The Holy Spirit counsels us.

A: We can rest in his peace even as we love him and obey his commandments.

P: Father, thank you for your your love for us. Thank you for your assurance. Help us to not be anxious as we abide in you.