Jn 14:25-27 - “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Peace and fear cannot co-exist. In order to have peace, there needs to be an absence of fear. The fear of God is the only thing that can replace the fear of man or the fear of the unknown or fear of loneliness. You can’t un-fear what you fear so that the only solution is replacing fear with a greater fear. In this case, Jesus is replacing the fear of losing Him with a Helper, the Holy Spirit. The reason they do not have to be afraid is because someone greater than fear will bring peace and with help you in time of need. When we fear our hearts are troubled and afraid. God’s peace assumes control in our chaotic life and hedges us in with love.
