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April 23
Tuesday


NOW I SEE

READ:
John 14:15-27
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The Helper, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father
will send in My name,
He will teach you all
things, and bring to
your remembrance all
things that I said to
you. __John 14:26
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Deborah Kendrick loves to attend Broadway musicals even though she is blind and always struggles to understand the setting and the movements of the characters onstage. Recently, however, she attended a play that used D-scriptive, a new technology that conveys the visual elements of the stage production through a small FM receiver. A recorded narration, keyed to the show's light and sound boards, describes the set and the action as it unfolds onstage. writing in The Columbus Dispatch, Deborah said, "If you ask me if I saw a show last week in New York, my answer is yes...I genuinely, unequivocally mean that I "saw" the show."

Her experience struck me as a vivid illustration of the Holy Spirit's role in our understanding of God's Word. Just before Jesus went to the cross, He told His followers that "the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you" (John 14:26).

As we open the Bible to read or study, the Spirit of Truth is with us to guide us into all truth (16:13). On our own we are blind, but through the guidance of God's Holy Spirit we can see. __David McCasland

````````````Break Thou the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,`````````````
````````````as Thou didst break the loaves beside the sea.``````````````
``````````````Beyond the sacred page I seek Thee, Lord:```````````````
```````````My spirit pants for Thee, O Living Word. __Lathbury```````````
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The father gave the Spirit to teach us from the Word.

******************Today's Bible Reading __ John 14:15-27**********************

15 "If you love Me, keep
My commandments. 16 And
I will pray the Father, and
He will give you another
Helper, that He may abide
with you forever__ 37 the
Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive,
because it neither sees Him
nor knows Him; but you
know Him, for He dwells
with you and will be in
you. 18 I will not leave you
orphans; I will come to
you. 19 A little while longer
and the world will see Me
no more, but you will see
Me. Because I live, you
will live also. 20 At that day
you will know that I am in
My Father, and you in Me,
and I in you. 21 He who has
My commandments and
keeps them, it is he who
loves Me. And he who
loves Me will be loved by
My Father, and I will love
him and manifest Myself
to him."

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said
to Him, "Lord, how is it
that You will manifest
Yourself to us, and not to
the world?"

23 Jesus answered and said
to him, "If anyone loves
Me, he will keep My word;
and My Father will love
him, and We will come to
him and make Our home
with him. 24 He who does
not love Me does not keep
My words; and the word
which you hear is not Mine
but the Father's who sent
Me.

25 "These things I have
spoken to you while being
present with you. 26 But he
Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send
in My name, He will teach
you all things, and bring to
your remembrance all
things that I said to you.

27 Peace I leave with you,
My peace I give to you;
not as the world gives do I
give to you. Let not your
heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid."