Help! April 13, 2011

Help!   April 13, 2011

Do you have a hard time asking for help?  Perhaps it’s our American culture that makes us think we have to do everything ourselves.  We even see it in small children.  “I do it myself.”  What is it that fuels such stubbornness?  An unbalanced sense of self- importance?   Pride?   Arrogance?

You know, we don’t have to do everything ourselves.  In John 15:26, Jesus promised to give us another helper who is the Holy Spirit.  This person of the Holy Spirit was provided to help us in our times of weakness, (Romans 8:26).   Do you ever wish there was someone who would stay with you all the time.  Bingo, Holy Spirit (John 14:16.)   Have you ever wanted someone to give you honest guidance?  Holy Spirit again (John 16:13.)   Would you like someone to explain what’s going to happen to you in the future? Holy Spirit (John 14:26).  Now let’s get even more practical.  Do you need someone to help you remember where you placed your car keys?  The Helper  (John 14:26.) 

Charles Spurgeon once said, “A church in a land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing.  If you have not the Spirit of God Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else’s way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.”   

“Tonight Heavenly Father, I ask that you would strengthen these readers to reach out to you their faithful helper, strengthener, truth-giver, future-teller, guide, sustainer, and memory expert.   Let them experience your abiding presence in their lives now and always.  Amen.”