Holy Spirit: Never Lost, Always Found

Introduction

As Christians, we believe that God has revealed himself to us as a triune being, Trinity - One Being, Three Persons. The Trinity is not a construct that we have put on God, it is how he has revealed himself. It is who God is, in his very being and essence.

Of the three persons of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is perhaps the most confusing. You know he exists, you know he does stuff, but you might really have no idea what that stuff is or why it matters. Plus, it doesn’t help that we have some sort of mental image associated with the Father and the Son. However inaccurate it might be, we picture God the Father like this - and we picture Jesus like this. When it comes to picturing the Holy Spirit, at times we might just think of him kind of like the Force from Star Wars. 

In fact, in a 2025 survey done by Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway, they presented a statement “The Holy Spirit is a force but is not a personal being.” Of American evangelical Christians (not Catholic or mainline) 50% either agreed with that statement or weren’t sure if it was true or not.

There can be a lack of clarity around the Holy Spirit, who he is, what he does, and why it matters. And, wherever there is a lack of clarity, confusion is not far behind. Often misunderstandings, foolishness, and false teaching surround the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, clouding not only what we believe in our heads about him, but even how we act and behave as a result.

So, over the course of this series, we are going to dig into some Scriptures that talk specifically about the Holy Spirit, who he is, what he does, and why it matters. We will strive to be biblically-rooted, not wandering into speculation and conjecture, focusing on how God has revealed himself in his Word, the Bible, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Context of the Farewell Discourse

In John 14, Jesus is preparing the disciples for his departure from earth. This is before his death and resurrection, and he wants them to know what is going to happen when he does leave, and what they are supposed to do.

John 14:15–31 CSB

“If you love me, you will keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you. “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father. I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me. “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful. You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe. I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me. On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me. “Get up; let’s leave this place.”

I want you to think back to when you were a kid, like a little kid, when you were the height where it seemed like everyone was much taller than you and you were stuck staring at everyone’s kneecaps. “knee high to a grasshopper.” For some of you that may be quite the challenge to think back that far. If you are able to access those historical archives, I want you to focus in on a very specific feeling that you may have felt, like I know that I did. You’re in the grocery store with your mom or dad, looking at something on a shelf, and then you turn around and your knees are gone. Where’s my mom? Where’s my dad? Where are their knees?

Do you remember that moment of panic? That sinking feeling of terror that is disproportionate to the actual situation, but paralyzing nonetheless. Maybe you even grabbed onto some legs that you thought were “your” legs but you look up into the face of a stranger and that feeling of fear comes washing back over you.

You’re alone - lost - orphaned. On your own.

Even outside of a scared toddler in a grocery store, we’ve probably all experienced the feeling of being alone. Sometimes this feeling can be devastating, scary, heartbreaking. How am I going to do this? I don’t know how, and there’s no one to help me.

As Christians we believe, in our heads anyway, that God is “always with us.” We say that to ourselves and to others to comfort, encourage, and sometimes just to cope with the fear and loneliness of life. We call on him for help and guidance, for comfort and correction, trusting that he is always there.

But as Christians, how do we know that God is with us? That his presence is not just “around” us but “in” us? What is the reason that we can have confidence that God will never leave us or forsake us? That even in the moments of loneliness and fear, our Father and Creator is still present? Because of God the Holy Spirit.

And, today, we will see that far from being an impersonal force, or a distant third member of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is an individual person of the Trinity, and it is by the Holy Spirit that we are drawn into relationship with God and empowered to walk as followers of Christ. According to his eternal identity, the Holy Spirit of God binds us to the very heart of God himself, allowing us to share in the fellowship that God has in himself.

God has not left you alone.

(15-17) The Identity of the Holy Spirit

Imagine having Jesus with you. Walking with you, guiding you, saying “don’t do that, do this,” etc. It seems like it would be “easier” to keep his commands when he is right there with you. 

Now imagine that upon his departure all Jesus said was - “keep my commandments” - okay, I’m out

We would be no better off than we were before Jesus came

It doesn’t put his disciples in any better of a position to follow God than people had been prior to Jesus’ coming

So, how are the disciples going to continue in their love for Jesus, as expressed in obedience, after he has gone away?

They are going to get a Helper!

Greek word - paraclete - sounds like parakeet

Also translated Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor, Counselor, Strengthener

“Counselor” probably the best, as long as it is understood not as camp counselor or marriage counselor but in a more “legal” sense

So, John is connecting the continuing love that Jesus’ disciples are to have for him, resulting in obedience, to the fact that he is going to send this “Counselor” to them.

And who is this Counselor?

The “spirit of truth” (15:26, 16:13)

Jesus has just claimed to be, what? John 14:6 - the way, the truth, and the life

15:26 - “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.”

This is also not the first time that “Spirit” has shown up in John’s gospel (1:32-33, 3:5-8, 4:23-24, 6:63, 7:37-38)

In each instance there is a clear indication that the Spirit in question is the Spirit of God - the Holy Spirit - who is himself God

This is the very Spirit of God himself - the Holy Spirit - and Jesus is saying that he is going to send him to be with his disciples

Let’s pause for a second - this is a huge moment. It is easy for us to blow by these couple of verses, but what Jesus is saying here is amazing.  

The “Spirit of God” has been present in Scripture ever since the very beginning. Literally, the beginning. Genesis 1:1–2 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”

The Spirit of God is hovering, ready to participate in the creative work of God, as God. 

This is the same Spirit that came onto certain people in the Old Testament such as Joshua, Gideon, and Samson in order for them to do mighty works for God. 

This is the Spirit that spoke through the Old Testament prophets

Jesus is saying that this Spirit of God, this Holy Spirit who has been in eternal fellowship with God the Father and God the Son, is now going to come and be the Counselor for his disciples - and this Helper/Counselor/Advocate is going to come and be with Jesus’ followers forever

And - this has been promised throughout the Old Testament in passages like…

Ezekiel 36:24–27 CSB

“ ‘For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.

Ezekiel 36:24–27 ““ ‘For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.”

This is a direct prophecy from the Old Testament promising that one day what Jesus is saying is going to happen. God is going to indwell his followers and we see this prophecy fulfilled in Acts 2 on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came.

But, because this is the Spirit of God, the “world” can’t see or know him

In other words, Jesus is saying that this gift of the Holy Spirit of God is a unique gift for his followers, for Christians. Yes the Spirit is active in the world, drawing people to God, as we’ll see in a minute, but the Holy Spirit is only really with, only “indwells” believers. So, faith in Christ is required in order to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.   

Jesus says one more thing in verse 17 that is very interesting

He says “you know him (the Holy Spirit), for he dwells with you and will be with you.” (v. 17)

Jesus is saying that they are already familiar with the Holy Spirit, they already know him, because he is already there - and in the future will continue to be there with them forever. 

Jesus is making a statement about the unity of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has already been present with them because Jesus was present with them.

The Holy Spirit is not God-Lite

Jesus is not sending them something “new.” The Holy Spirit is not a different God, or Jesus’ backup.

Have you ever had to fill in for someone? Not a substitute teacher, not Temu God, not budget-friendly God

The same presence of God that has been with them in Jesus’ human form will continue through the Holy Spirit. No longer will Jesus be physically visible, but we can still be with him and know him by the Holy Spirit of God.

This unity between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is laid out plainly in…

Matthew 3:13–17 CSB

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. But John tried to stop him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?” Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John allowed him to be baptized. When Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased.”

Look at this picture:

This moment of Jesus’ baptism is a moment where God has drawn back the veil, revealing his inner life to us. And what do we see? A Father, loving his Son, in the Spirit.

So, simply, we could describe the Holy Spirit’s identity as the “bond of love between the Father and the Son.”

“It is all deeply personal: the Spirit stirs up the delight of the Father in the Son and the delight of the Son in the Father, inflaming their love and so binding them together in “the fellowship of the Holy Spirit” (2 Cor. 13:14). He makes the Father’s love known to the Son, causing him to cry “Abba!” - something that he will also do for us (Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6).” - Reeves, 29

And, it is important to note that this is what the Spirit has always done as God - he has not started to do this at some point

So when we think of the Holy Spirit it is important that we think of him as fully God, and his presence as being the full presence of God.

There is one other important thing to note: the Holy Spirit is not some impersonal force - he is a person. Even here in John 14, Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as a “him,” or a “he” again and again. 

“He is the Spirit of truth…receive him…doesn’t sees him or know him…you know him…he remains with you…will be with you.”

We see in Scripture some very personal, relational things that the Spirit does as a person 

Teaches and reminds (John 14:6, 1 Cor. 2:13)

Speaks (Acts 8:29, 13:2)

Can be grieved (Eph. 4:30)

Can be angry (Heb. 10:29)

Intercedes for us (Rom. 8:26-27)

Forbids and changes human plans (Acts 16:6-7)

Gives gifts (1 Cor. 12:11)

(18-23) The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit

Put yourselves in the disciples shoes (or sandals) for a moment. They have been walking with Jesus, learning from Jesus, he has taught them, comforted them, and most importantly, revealed God to them. They obviously don’t know everything that is going on, and there is a lot they are still confused about.

But imagine the deep sadness that comes over them as they begin to realize what Jesus is saying. He’s leaving. Now they don’t know how, or why, and it becomes clear when Jesus actually is crucified that they really had no idea what was going on

But at this very moment it probably feels like they have been given this amazing gift of Jesus, and now he is going to abandon them.

Maybe you have felt like this.

Jesus goes out of his way to comfort his disciples, saying - 

“I will not leave as orphans, I will come to you.”

Jesus has not left his disciples alone, he has not left us alone!

Jesus says that in a little while the world will no longer see him. Why?

He is ascending to be with the Father - his human form is no longer there. 

But he says that his followers will see him - how?

In the Holy Spirit! 

In the Holy Spirit we are able to “see” Jesus 

The Holy Spirit is not some ethereal, force-like Spirit - it is the very presence of God himself. 

Jesus says that “in that day” - the resurrection, giving of the Spirit, their eyes will be opened by the Holy Spirit and they will finally understand the unity of the Son with the Father - in the Spirit

But not only that - but look at v. 20 - “I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.” 

Listen, this is very important. Jesus is saying that this eternal relationship between the Father, the Son, bound together by love in the Holy Spirit - has bubbled over. Now, by the Holy Spirit of God you and I, humans, can be bound to the inner life of God - we can participate in the inner life of God - we are not outsiders looking in, God has invited us to know him personally and intimately 

We can share in the fellowship that God has in himself

Look at what Jesus says, how Jesus describes this in v. 23

“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.”

Listen to the intimacy that Jesus says we have with God - that the very presence of God is with us, and that we are part of the family of God because of the work of the Holy Spirit - he has made his “home” with us

This is all put together to make sure we know…

The Holy Spirit binds you to God’s Heart

This is why in John 16, toward the end of this Farewell Discourse that Jesus is giving, he can say in verse 7 - “I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.”

Jesus says that it is better for his followers that he goes away, and our first thought is probably - what? No it isn’t!

How much easier would it be if Jesus was just here, now, with us? Is it really better that he has gone away? 

Jesus says it is - so it must be

We may think the Holy Spirit is “less God” but he is not “less God” - it is the very presence of God that dwells with us and in us through the Holy Spirit - so it not that we are somehow getting “less Jesus”

We have been left with the Spirit of God and the Word of God - and it is better for us, right now, to have the Spirit and the Bible than to hear a voice from heaven, or even to see Jesus face-to-face.

(24-31) Ministry of the Holy Spirit

There are two threads running through this passage, of love and obedience. Jesus says over and over something to the effect of “if you love me, you will keep my commands,” tying those two ideas together. The ongoing relationship between him and his disciples is characterized by their obedience. They love and obey Jesus. 

But guess where all of this comes from? Not just the ability to love God and keep his commands, but to live the Christian life in general. The Holy Spirit! Everything in the Christian life is a result of the personal ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 

The Holy Spirit binds us to heart of God. By doing so, he empowers us to be able to live for God, acting out of our identity as God’s children. 

The main way that the Spirit does this is to testify about the Son

The Spirit’s main role is to testify about the Son

Look at a couple of other Scriptures from the Farewell Discourse with me

John 14:26 “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.”

John 15:26 ““When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.”

John 16:13–15 “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.”

Some have taken to calling the Holy Spirit the “shy member of the Trinity”

The Holy Spirit always points to Jesus

The idea is that the Spirit never testifies about himself. He is not the main character. He is fully God, but he always testifies about the Son. At every point the Spirit is pointing to Jesus saying “look at him!” 

He points to Jesus because Jesus is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1) - he reveals the Father to us. The Spirit is not the image of God. We can’t see the Spirit but we can see Jesus by the Spirit’s testimony.

This means that if any spirit, or thought, or feeling is not testifying to Jesus - his life, work, and commands - then I don’t know what that is, but it isn’t the Holy Spirit.

1 John 4:1–3 “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world.”

Let me give you a couple of examples:

The Holy Spirit is not your personal magical genie - who just pops in to supernaturally do what you want

He also does not exist to simply give a divine “thumbs-up” to what you want to do anyway. Sometimes you might be tempted to say, “the Spirit is leading me to do…” when really it’s just something that you really, really want to do

Example of using the Holy Spirit in a break-up

He’s like, “hey, leave me out of this!”

The Holy Spirit will never lead you to do something contrary to God’s Word. He will also not add anything to God’s Word. So if and when you hear about someone hearing some “new revelation” from God - it isn’t our God that they’re hearing from. 

Whenever you hear someone say “the Holy Spirit has revealed to me…” be very careful about taking to heart what comes next.

We have a problem nowadays with people, even some teachers and pastors, esteeming the Holy Spirit above God. Sometimes it’s easy to see the Holy Spirit as a “blank check” that we can just ascribe anything to. Like if we say “the Holy Spirit has told me…” you can pretty much say whatever you want.

But the litmus test for anything that comes from anyone who is claiming to be hearing from the Holy Spirit is whether what they are saying can be firmly rooted in God’s Word, not in conjecture, experience, or emotion.

But this does not mean that the Holy Spirit is not active! The Holy Spirit ministers to us by testifying to how Jesus reveals God to us through his life, his work, his commands, everything. Some specific ways:

Testifies about the Son (John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13-15, 1 John 4:1-3)

Draws us into salvation (John 6:44, 16:8-10, 1 Cor. 12:3, Gal. 4:6)

Gives us new life (John 3:5-8, Rom. 6:4, 2 Cor. 5:17-21)

Inspires Scripture (2 Peter 1:21, 2 Timothy 3:16-17)

Helps us understand Scripture (1 Cor. 2:11-16)

Convicts of sin (John 16:8, Eph. 4:30)

Assures us of our salvation (1 John 3:19-22, Eph. 4:30)

Intercedes for us (Rom. 8:26-27)

Makes us more like Jesus (2 Cor. 3:18, Rom. 8:28-29)

Empowers us to obey (Ezek. 36:25-29, Gal. 5:22-23, 1 Thess. 5:23)

Gifts us for service (1 Cor. 12:2-11)

All of this means that we can experience the fullness of God through his Holy Spirit. We have everything we need for “life and godliness” as it says in 1 Peter 1:3. The Spirit of God indwells us, and we have the Word of God that we can hold in our hands, and be empowered by the Spirit to understand. We don’t need anything else. 

Because of all this, Jesus says “be at peace! I’m not really leaving you - don’t be afraid.” In fact, Jesus says that they should rejoice that the Son is returning to the Father.

Application

God has not left you alone.

I’m worried about how some of you might view salvation, and how that is rooted in how you think about God, specifically the person of the Holy Spirit. It’s possible that you think of salvation as a transaction - where God has something you need and you need to figure out a way to get it. In that sense, salvation is a commodity, an item, a “thing.”

Salvation, in this way, becomes something that is dropped off on your doorstep like an Amazon package. It isn’t personal. It’s something that God gives you, but there’s no guarantee that he wants to. It’s dispassionate and insecure. Like, what if God decides he wants his salvation back? What if at some point he starts to think you’re a wasted investment? 

Some people think of salvation as you saying some magic words and God then going - okay, you’re in, but try not to mess things up too badly.

Because of the lack of clarity surrounding the Holy Spirit, there is teaching about him that is at best imprecise and at worst just straight up wrong. And if it was just wrong that would be one thing, but it is actually damaging to you in your life and your confidence.

The way we answer these kind of questions tell us a lot about the security of our relationship with Christ:

Can you lose your salvation?

Will God pull his Holy Spirit away from you, leaving you on your own?

Do you need to be afraid of demons? Demonic possession?

Are there evil spirits attached to items and things that give dark forces some kind of foothold in your life?

Are bad things happening to you in your life because you don’t have enough faith?

Is God holding something back from you, some kind of better, deeper experience of his presence that you won’t unlock until you “level up” as a Christian?

We’re going to cover some of these questions and more, so I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder.

Some of these questions like the one I just mentioned may be important to address - but I also think they are based on a flawed understanding of the Holy Spirit and just salvation in general.

Listen to this verse:

Ephesians 1:13–14 “In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed. The Holy Spirit is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.”

Listen, when you become a Christian, when you turn from your sin and believe in Jesus for salvation, you are not just given a commodity - a product. You see, in salvation we don’t get a “thing,” we get a person. Salvation is relational.

When you repent and believe the gospel Paul says that you are sealed.

Seal - “to put a mark on an object to show possession, authority, identity or security.”

In other words, God says, you are mine. And he doesn’t just say it, he proves it. The Holy Spirit - the presence of God himself - is the seal - the assurance that you can have that God himself has declared that you are his possession, under his authority, He has bound you to his heart and there is nothing, even from the depths of hell that has any measure of power or authority over you.

As if that wasn’t enough, Paul also says that God has Ephesians 1:3 “Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ.” and that Ephesians 1:7–8 “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and understanding.”

God has not just saved us in kind of a transactional, contractual sense, but he has lavished, poured out everything that we need to live an abundant life in Christ.

There is no “higher knowledge” that you need to try to access, no hidden things that God is trying to hold back from you. God has held nothing back, he has poured everything out on you in Christ Jesus.

1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God—and that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.”

What good news the gospel is. Your sins are forgiven, you are promised eternal life with Jesus, and the very presence of God comes to dwell within you, transforming you day by day into the image of Christ.

Conclusion

If you are a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit.

If you have the Holy Spirit, you are bound to the heart of God.

If you are bound to the heart of God, the only thing that could rip you out of God’s heart would have to be something stronger than God - and there ain’t nothing stronger than God.

You have been saved, sealed, and you are being sanctified by the Spirit who testifies to Jesus.

There are many things we can and should talk about when it comes the Holy Spirit, but let us start from this place: John 14:18 ““I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.”

God has not left you alone. He has come to you.

There are two kinds of people here today. Those who are saved, and have the Holy Spirit, and those who are not saved, and don’t have the Holy Spirit. There’s no in between.

Maybe you’re here today and you have not experienced this inner life of God. You’ve never had this type of relationship. You are still dead in your sins. You haven’t been recreated. Well, just as the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters at creation, and as he floated above the waters of Jesus’ baptism - he hovers here, today, in this room. Crackling with divine expectancy. Ready to do a new thing. Ready to bind your heart to the heart of God, enabling you to feel his heartbeat, to grow in your love and obedience to him. Are you ready to be re-created? To have a new heart? To repent from your own, sinful path and instead live a life that is eternally bound to God? There is no reason why today cannot be that day for you. Not just a Savior but a friend who sticks closer than a brother, a bond that is deeper than blood because of the work of Christ.

In every moment when you are tempted to feel alone, in every situation where it seems that you are helpless, there’s no one to help or just no one to be there - take heart that God has not left you. That isn’t some cheap throwaway platitude, no, God’s very presence - the Holy Spirit - indwells you. God is with you in a way that is deeply personal and intimate.

Sin, sickness, sadness, or suffering does nothing to push God away from you. He has sealed you with his very presence. If you are in Christ, you have a Counselor, and Advocate, a Helper. God himself binds up your wounds (even if they are self-inflicted), mends your broken heart, and never leaves you, draws back from you, or holds back from you.

You may have outgrown the experience of being a scared toddler in a grocery store, looking for “your” legs, but if you can, I want you to try to remember what it felt like when you looked up into your father or mother’s face, realizing that you were found, not lost. That feeling of relief, everything being right again in the world as they took you into their arms. On a much bigger scale - that is the reality of what the Holy Spirit does for you. God himself, binding you to God’s heart, ministering to you with the words and wisdom of Jesus.

In Christ - you are never lost, always found.