God gave His good Spirit

You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And gave them water for their thirst. – Nehemiah 9.20

As Israel wandered in the wilderness God did not leave them alone. He met their needs for all of the forty years they wandered.

And while they were there God gave them His good Spirit to instruct them.

Things may be a little different now – but one of the things that has not changed is the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible tells us now that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. He breathed His word into the hearts of men so that we have His word written down for us. The Good Spirit of God is the Teacher for the Jews in the Wilderness and He is our Teacher today.

The key verse of course is John 14.26 – ‘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 things that I said to you.’

God does appoint human teachers. It is part of His plan to equip us for the ministry. Our ultimate Teacher though is the Holy Spirit. Without Him we would know nothing. Human teachers always need to be examined and their teachings checked out.

But the Holy Spirit, our Helper, can always be relied on as the perfect and infallible Teacher.