I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter

Acts begins, "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, (friend of God, to whom the book of Acts was written.) of all that Jesus began both to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen." 

As a child I didn't know much about the Holy Ghost. Grandmother Stearnes would talk of the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Ghost coming upon people. Sometimes I heard reference of speaking in tongues but I really did not have a relationship that I was aware of, with this most holy being. In John 14 Jesus says that he is going to the Father and that he will pray unto the Father and he will give unto them another comforter -- even the Spirit of Truth.  We can learn two things here.

First is Jesus’ role in the Godhead. He organized THE church, His church, the only true Church, He sacrificed and made the atonement, and then His work on earth was done. In making the sacrifice for us He bought us, purchased us if you will, with his blood and if we choose to accept this atonement we become his. We then become his, and just as a parent calls the school, or the neighbor and speaks for their child, Christ speaks, prays to the Father for us.  He becomes our advocate with the Father – IF we allow him to.

We are sometimes like the teen whom the parent, enrolls in school, buys the books and the clothes and whatever is needed and send the child to school. It is up to that teen to engage in learning from the teacher, do the homework or whatever. Sometimes we go through the motions,( I admit that has been me at times, ) and sometimes we don’t even show up. We lose our books, the dog ate our homework, the jeans got ripped into a more acceptable manner. The appropriate shirt somehow got replaced with something more acceptable to peers and less acceptable to the parent. The parent tries but at some point the teen either changes or makes a break with their advocate.  We do the same thing.  

The second thing we learn is that He will give us another comforter.  As Jesus had been a comforter for those he healed and taught, the Holy Ghost now becomes our teacher, and healer. In other words, having set thing in place Christ took his place in Heaven on the right hand of the Father and the Holy Ghost or Spirit took His place with us.  

Before Christ came to Earth and set up His Church the Holy Ghost was here among us to inspire the prophets and all those who believed that Christ would come.