The One Sent TODAY

The Truth That Christianity Needs to Rediscover

Most Christians look at Jesus as the One sent by God, and stop there.
They keep looking at Him as the central figure of the story, but they do not realize that, after His ascension, the Father sent another One, the Holy Spirit, to continue the same work, now in us and through us.
Ignoring this truth keeps Christianity stuck in a faith that is historical and expectant, but inactive.

1. The sending that did not end

Jesus was clear: “As the Father has sent me, so I send you” (John 20:21).
But He knew the disciples could not fulfill this mission on their own. So He promised: “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter… He will be with you and will be in you” (John 14:16-17).
The Holy Spirit did not come as a mere ‘spiritual helper’: He is himself the One sent TODAY and God's gift present on Earth.

2. The role of the One sent TODAY

The Spirit did not come only to comfort, but to form Christ in us (Gal 4:19).
He shapes our character, renews our mind, empowers us with power and sends us as a living expression of the Son.
Just as Christ in Jesus was the perfect manifestation of the Father, Christ in us must be the visible manifestation of the Kingdom today.

3. The mistake of the traditional view

The traditional view stops at “Christ in Jesus,” admires what He did, but does not take up the calling to live the same Christ today.
This produces a contemplative Christianity, one that waits for Jesus to return while ignoring that He has already sent His Spirit to act now.
This limitation is what impoverishes the Christian life and makes it irrelevant to the world.

4. The warning of Acts 1

After the ascension, the disciples stood looking at the sky. Two angels appeared and said:
“Why are you looking at the sky? This same Jesus… will return…” (Acts 1:11).
The message was clear: do not stand still waiting; the next step is to receive the Spirit and bear witness (Acts 1:8).
The time between the ascension and the return is not a time of passive waiting, but of action in the power of the One sent who is present.

5. The path to becoming one who is sent

• Receive the Holy Spirit, without Him there is no legitimate sending.
• Go through the test, like Jesus in the desert, learn to discern and resist.
• Hear the living voice of the Spirit, do not live only on the memory of what is written, but on a living Word.
• Act in the power of the Spirit, carry out the good works prepared beforehand (Eph 2:10).
• Take up the mission publicly, be a witness of Christ in word and life.

6. What are good works, after all?

Good works are not merely socially positive actions or gestures of natural kindness.
From the biblical perspective, good works are those that honor the name of God, showing that the Holy Spirit lives in us TODAY.
They are born from the direction and empowering of the Spirit, and not from human strength. As Jesus said in John 15:5: “Without me you can do nothing”.
Matthew 5:16 shows that the purpose of good works is that others glorify the Father, and not us.
Thus, good works testify to the world that the One sent who is present is working in us, forming Christ and carrying out the works the Father already prepared.

7. Looking to the One sent who is present, not to figures of the past

Many Christians, especially in the traditional Catholic context, keep their devotion and expectation turned toward historical figures of the faith, such as Mary, Peter, Paul or Joseph.
Although all of them were precious instruments of God, none of them is the focus of our faith nor the One sent by God who is present today.

Scripture itself declares that there is only one mediator between God and men: Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:5).
And, after His ascension, Jesus sent the Holy Spirit as the One sent now, to dwell in us and form Christ in us.

Just as the disciples in Acts 1 stood looking at the sky, waiting for the visible return of Jesus, many today look at figures of the past, forgetting that the One sent who is present, the Holy Spirit, is already here, empowering us to live and manifest Christ now.

A living faith must be turned toward what the Spirit is doing TODAY, and not only toward memories, traditions or historical devotions, however respectable they may be.

Conclusion: The necessary turn

The Father sent the Son. The Son sent the Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit is the One sent who is present TODAY on Earth, who forms Christ in us to send us into the world.
Rediscovering this changes everything: faith stops being passive expectation and becomes active participation in God's eternal mission.

Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27).