This is a message especially for those that are feeling lonely. John TL paints the picture of Jesus and His disciples. Whatever the issue was, Jesus was there as an elder parent always taking care of them. Jesus wanted them to know that even though He wouldn't always be there in the flesh, in person, He would never leave them as orphans because the Spirit would be in them as a great, wonderful and equal representation of the Son and the Father.
We can get strength out of the story of the Israelites. It's easy to point our fingers to them and call them stubborn, but...
The rainbow has a message for us today. There are things we can see through the story of the rainbow that remind us, and...