He will guide you to all truth

WEDNESDAY 20 MAY (Jn 16,12-15)

Usually when you think about the truth, the mind runs to the mystery or concept that there is in every Word of Scripture. The Holy Spirit would come to let us know what has been revealed of the mystery of Christ Jesus according to the fullness of the truth contained in every Word written in the sacred pages. This is a part of his guide, but not all of his guide. If we add to this first vision of truth a second one, which is our truth, that truth written by God, in Christ, for the Holy Spirit, which each of us must realize, then the meaning becomes full and perfect. The Spirit is given so that each of us can accomplish in his life what has been written for us not with partial, but full and perfect realization. Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit from the moment of conception until the day of his glorious ascension to heaven, to carry out all the mystery written for him in the Law, in the Prophets and in the Psalms. Our mystery to be accomplished was also written in Scripture, both in the Old and New Testaments. This written mystery must be realized by bringing to fruition charismas, ministries, vocations and particular missions. But who knows its mystery? Only the Holy Spirit. Who can teach and reveal it to us? The Holy Spirit. Who can lead us to the whole truth? The Holy Spirit. Who can transform us from men according to nature to people according to the Holy Spirit? Only the Holy Spirit. No one else can do this. Just as Jesus was taken by the hand by the Spirit and guided to all his truth that was accomplished on the day of his resurrection, so the Spirit must take us and lead us to all our truth, which will come true on the day of our glorious resurrection.

St. Paul reveals this truth to the Corinthians: “Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,” this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms. Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone. For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?” But we have the mind of Christ” (1Cor 2,6-16). Whoever is not powerfully planted in the Holy Spirit, cannot be guided by him to the realization of all his truth. His life will sink on the rocks of falsehood, error, foolishness, impiety, immorality and idolatry.

“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.

The Holy Spirit will guide us to the whole truth of the mystery of Christ Jesus, helping us to realize it entirely in our life. There is no point in having only a conceptual knowledge of the mystery of the Lord Jesus. Truth is truth when it becomes our life. Until we have not reached the glory of heaven, the path in truth must be uninterrupted.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, ensure that we walk from truth to truth towards all truth.