We are completely helpless. We can come up with our absolute best plans for a good life, success, influence, money, and many other things. Even those of us with the best plans are still helpless. We strive for things like success and money, but neither of those things last. We strive for things like influence, but we constantly wonder if that will come and, if so, how long that will last. We strive for a good life, but many of us lay in bed at night wondering when the other shoe is going to drop.
It doesn't have to be this way. It seems like it does simply because it always has been this way, for most of us. We all have our shortcomings, our sputters, our "infirmities," or even our "sins." No one has ever been able to beat it since Adam, the first human.
Insert Romans 5, one of the most relieving passages of Scripture ever! The passage reminds us that we don't have to overcome our shortcomings, et al. We don't have to strive for a good life. That's already been done for us. Jesus Christ bridged the gap between God's infinite goodness and humanity's pointless strivings. Though Adam brought death onto humanity, Christ conquered death and offers that opportunity to us, too! Instead of striving for a good life made up of many fleeting things (like money, etc.), we can live forever with our Creator, the one who loves us enough to send His Son (Jesus) to people who are too helpless to love Him back if we tried.
Today His praise is on my lips for helping the helpless! Along with David in 1 Chr 29, "My You be praised forever and ever! Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is Yours, O Lord, and this is Your kingdom. We adore You as the one who is over all things. Wealth and honor come from You alone, for You rule over everything. Power and might are in Your hand, and at Your discretion people are made great and given strength. O our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name!" (To read all of David's - and my - prayer, see 1 Chr 29:10-19.)
3 comments:
Hi Lynn,
I lost your number...I have two questions for you...
1) How did last weekend go?
2) Would you be able to play piano and/or lead worship for me this SUnday?
Lynn, (this is in response to the comment you left on my blog)
I would love for you to make a post on your food/eating philsophy. Not only do I think it would be interesting, but also informative and eye opening. I'd love to see your insight into why and how you and Natasha make the food choices you referred to.
What'd ya say?
Helpless. It's sorta like being at the end of you're rope. Once you admit you're helpless, or at the end of your rope, you let go... and that's when God can draw closest to you and you to him.
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