Jesus goes to Heaven to be with the Father. Our loss, His gain, right? Wrong. Even this is in our best interest:
Having Jesus live among us, teaching and demonstrating the life God wants us all to have, would have been a good thing in and of itself. But our Father is a God of abundance, not merely of sufficiency, so he gave us more. He gave us his Holy Spirit. And what a gift the Spirit is!... He is far more than a “tool” for building the kingdom of God. When we give a gift, we don’t tend to present something merely practical and functional. No, we aim to surprise and delight the person. We want our gift to be a sign of our love and appreciation for that person. So it is with the Father. In giving us his Spirit, he has made it possible to surprise and delight us continually with more and more of his love (Romans 5:5).
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