I will not leave you comfortless [or orphans]: I will come to you.—John 14:18
In these words of the Savior we have an “I will not” and an “I will” in close and significant conjunction. One seems to show us the negative, and the other the positive side of Christ’s love. The first suggests his knowledge, feeling, responsibility, etc., with regard to his disciples, and the second the activity of his love. He will not leave them orphans, he will come unto them. We who have become disciples of Christ know that these words apply to ourselves, as well as to those to whom they were originally spoken; and we who know the needs of the spiritual life will lay hold of such a promise as this and appropriate it in all its fulness.
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