Hey there and welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled All The Answers was written by Tim Gustafson.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. describes the awful moment he understood his father was gone.

Motor racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. had just been killed in a horrific car crash at the end

of the Daytona 500, a race in which Dale Earnhardt Jr. had also participated.

There's this noise coming out of me that I can't recreate, said the young Earnhardt.

It's this bellow of shock and sorrow and fear.

And then the lonely truth, I'm going to have to do this by myself.

Having dad was like having a cheat sheet, Earnhardt Jr. explained. Having dad was like

knowing all the answers. Jesus' disciples had learned to look to him for all the answers.

Now, on the eve of his crucifixion, he assured them he wouldn't leave them alone.

I will ask the father, Jesus said in John 14,

and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever, the spirit of truth.

Jesus extended that comfort to all who would believe in him. Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching, he said.

My father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

Those who choose to follow Christ have within them the spirit who teaches them all things

and reminds them of everything Jesus taught.

We don't have all the answers, but we have the spirit of the one who does. Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading

is from John chapter 14 verses 15 through 26. If you love me, keep my commands,

and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever,

the spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,

for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you.

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