Everybody Needs Somebody

Send us Fan MailSunday 10 May 2026As this 50 days of Easter celebration winds to its conclusion, it might be easy to think that the best part of the church year and our life together is over and things will become a bit ‘ho-hum’.How would it have been for those close to Jesus when he started talking very directly and pointedly about his imminent departure via suffering, cross and death! Surely a bit more serious than just worrying about things becoming ‘ho-hum!How on earth would they cope? How on earth would they know what to do? Who would stick up for them, guide them, show them what to say and do, teach them so much more than they already knew?In these questions and in this fear, Jesus does two things. He says that life will not go ‘down-hill’ after he goes and that if they just do what they saw him do, they will get through.Jesus sems to know that everybody needs somebody sometimes and says we have that Someone all the time.In all we face, we have this Advocate, this assistant, this Spirit of Jesus guiding, empowering, teaching, leading, protecting. We also have clear direction on how to go about it: Love as we have been loved and leave the rest to the Spirit!Praying that you don’t live like an orphan, thinking you have got to make all this work out and make sense of everything.Praying that you find great encouragement and strength for all you are facing in this ‘Paraclete’; this Advocate whom you have received in your baptism already.Pastor Adrian