TRUST His presence

Early in Scripture God told His people "My presence will go with thee and I will give you rest."  Ex 33:14.....but like me, trusting that promise was very difficult under circumstances that fell in the way to test them...and me.

Num 35:34 they were instructed "Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the lord, dwell among you."
They defiled the land, just as I defile the temple of the Holy Spirit...fornication, procrastination, not keeping promises, grieving the Holy Spirit......  fear~ such a constant battle for e.... trust~ another battle based on fear, false "teaching" from satan.

In John 14 Jesus himself says "I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you" and He did in the form of a Comforter....  "My Father will love him (ME) and we (Father and Son) will come to him (ME) and make our home with him (ME).

God the Father, Jesus the Son lives within me in the person of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus said in John 14 "I will ask the father and he will give you (ME) another Counselor to be with you (ME) forever - the Spirit of Truth."

That is indeed the VERY presence of God ~~ not with me, but IN me.!!!

So why can I not stand on this knowledge and trust His very presence.....I would think it is a learning curve/cycle/process . . . .  one that finds me conflicted in everyday life because I do NOT trust HIS PRESENCE IN ME.  Counselor, Comfortor... "the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in My name, will TEACH you all things and will REMIND you of everything I have said to you."