Help People Live by Faith in Jesus Christ

In some parts of the Midwest during a polar vortex, winter blizzards can be so fierce that you can’t see your hand in front of your face. Before the onset of modern machinery in farming, farmers learned a life-saving lesson. When a blizzard was coming, they would tie a strong rope from their back door out to the barn. That way, they could make their way to the barn and back, holding on, step by step, even when they couldn’t see the path. The rope was their guide, their lifeline. In Jesus’ farewell address in the book of John, he promised that he would send the Holy Spirit to be our Helper—our guide, our lifeline—leading us through the storms and uncertainties of life, helping us follow Jesus in faith. That passage in John and another one in Romans provide 5 ways he does that.