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Help Me Jesus: The Power of Weakness


 Have you reached that wall, where is seems like you have no idea what to do? Have you reached the end of yourself, where you have no more answers, no more advice, and nothing more to add? In a world of endless stimulation, where one must have constant solutions and answers it is easy to burn out. 


People expect us to be Jesus. Either in terms of purity or in having a solution. We do not get to be frail, but that is what Jesus told us we can do, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30).   


Are you heavy laden? Does if feel like the world is on your shoulders and you have no solutions? That you are at the breaking point? I worry because The Bible Answer Man fell away from True Biblical Protestant Christianity because I think he got burnt out having to have all the answers. Maybe he started having his own questions, but that would not jive with the brand of answer man. 


We have created a culture in the church where we spit Scriptures out as band aids and come up with brilliant exegesis to satisfy people’s cravings, but we need time to be weak, for there is power in weakness, “But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9).  We do not like to be weak, because there is no pride in it. We love Jesus, but don’t want him to be savior, to rescue us and bring rest to us. We want to be strong, to stand on our own two feet, and yet it is in when feel are strength sap, and we fall down through the water we were walking on that Jesus reaches ourlt and pulls us up into his arms where we can find rest. 


We need to make time to  let ourselves be weak so Jesus can be our strength and our rest. So that He can demonstrates that He is God, not us; we exhaust ourselves trying to be all knowing and all powerful. We keep eating that forbidden fruit in Eden, “be like God,” rather than letting God in us (1 John 4:15) be God! 


When are we going to enter God’s rest? Will it take cancer? A break down? A crisis of faith? Why must we press ourselves to brink before we admit we need our Lord to help us? Is our pride worth driving ourselves to burn out? How long can you be all knowing, and all answering before it chaffs and you collapse? We are not meant to be God, He is all knowing and answering, and sometimes his answer is rest.. you who are weary and heavy laden. Amen.  

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