⁵ “But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going. ⁶ Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you. ⁷ But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you. ⁸ And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. ⁹ The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me. ¹⁰ Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. ¹¹ Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

¹² “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now. ¹³ When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. ¹⁴ He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’

John 16:5-15

Dear God, it’s Trinity Sunday, and I feel like I need to sit with you and just worship who you are. The psalm of the day is Psalm 8 where it includes the line, “What is man that you should be mindful of him?” Yes, who am I? Who am I that you should be mindful of me? Who are we that you should be mindful of us?

I like this line from Jesus in verse 12 that the disciples, in that moment, wouldn’t have been able to handle what they didn’t know or understand. You keep us on a need-to-know basis and we so seldom need to know. But part of our learning is having your Holy Spirit “guide [us] into all truth.”

Father, I need to be guided, even in this day. I need to be guided as I get ready to go to church. I need to be guided as I go out to work a fundraising event this afternoon. But to be guided, I have to first submit. You can’t lead me if I am out front. So I submit to you. I worship you. You are God and I am not. I don’t understand why you are mindful of me, buy you are. Help me to let go . Help me to know what that looks like. Help me to live and life and do things that bring other into complete relationship with you.

I pray this in Jesus and with your Holy Spirit,

Amen