The Spirit of Truth and Life

"We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error"(1 John 4:6).
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:2, my emphases).
When we have received Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, we know God. God is ONE, and at the same time THREE: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is often referred to as the Spirit of Truth, and rightfully so. However, He is also the Spirit of Life, and we need to preach both.
The way I have learnt to see these two sides of the Spirit, is thus:
The Spirit of Truth has to do with salvation, what the Lord is and what He has done for us. If we preach, teach and act on both these sides of the Spirit, the Word will be rightly divided. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15, my emphasis). What does this mean? It means that when I preach the Word, I am faithful to the Word's immediate context and to the author's intended purpose. I do not add or subtract anything. "Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar" (Proverbs 30:5-6).
The Spirit of Life has to do with the life we live, or rather, the life we're supposed to live as Christians. Signs should follow the preaching and teaching of God's Word. "And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with [them], and confirming the word with signs following. Amen"(Mark 16:20). Do signs follow my preaching and teaching of the Word? If not, there's something missing.
"God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will" (Hebrews 2:4). The Spirit of Life wants to perform God's miracles much more than we do. Somehow we've become lazy Christians, not going for the full and complete Gospel. It's a prayer in my heart that God will awaken His people to the realities of His kingdom. I pray that my and your experience will be like Paul's in 1 Corinthians:
"And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God" (vv. 1-5).
If we preach and teach and believe in the Spirit of Truth and Life, we can and should expect to see the power of God! God is the same yesterday, today and forever. What He did before, He can and will do today, and also tomorrow.