We all know just how important water is in our lives. Water is essential to our health, essential to our everyday living, and essential to life in general. 

And Jesus uses this image of water to help us relate to and grasp the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 

It's easy to appear like a Christian on the outside, but until you get taken up by the wind of the Spirit, you're not really living the life that God has called you to live. Just like a kite needs to be flown in the wind to do what a kite is meant to do, we Christians need to be caught by the wind of the Spirit to do what we are meant to do as Christians. 

In today’s passage, Jesus focuses on the central work of the Holy Spirit: to point back to Him (John 16:13b-14). 

There can be many spiritual signs of the Holy Spirit's presence in someone's life; many different signs of the Holy Spirit's presence within a church. While the Spirit’s power may bring healing, miracles, and more – the greater sign, or the most certain sign of the Holy Spirit’s presence is the centrality of Jesus. 

There are not many things greater than the longing for presence. Presents can only satisfy to a certain extent, but without presence – something remains deeply missing. All the gifts and presents in the world cannot replace the presence that we are to be with one another.

The theme of the year 2020 was See God is doing a new thing.  We have witnessed God doing a new thing in and through our church and our families during this challenging year. 

The theme of 2021 is The Unstoppable Work of the Holy Spirit.  The work of the Holy Spirit is unstoppable in any circumstance.