Helplessness can be one of the worst feelings. It can be frustrating... annoying... It can drive you crazy.
There are just times when you really can do nothing. No matter how much you want to do something, you cannot help.
At my job, I deal with people who need help with computers and software... but I am only trained to help with basic problems. I know a little more than that, but sometimes there is no easy solution... or just no solution that I know... This actually makes me hate my job. I do not want to go in to work. I do not want to have to face the chance of not knowing. I don't want to have to say, "I don't know, I can't help." There are usually numbers or e-mail addresses to give for them to find help elsewhere... but that's not guaranteed... it's not the same... I couldn't help!
Not that it is wrong to want to have the answers to help people (especially when you work as a tutor)... but why?
Why is helplessness such a horrible thing in my mind (our minds?)?
It's not that we hate it necessarily...
Babies are helpless, many people seem to like them.
But when it comes down to "I am helpless".....
NO, NO, NO!!! I'm in control! I'm fine! I can do it!!!
Why is the truth so frightening?
We are not in control. God is.
Is He so evil that we fear His command?
Does He intend harm so that we distain His authority?
"Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!"
"Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you."
--from Luke 12
He values His creation... He feeds... He clothes... He loves...
Whether we want to admit it or not... whether we will submit or not...
We are helpless...
If not for the grace and love of God, we would not even exist...
I know this... I have known these things...
But so often I still don't want to be helpless...
God, save us from our pride.
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Good post!
ReplyDelete25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34
I think sometimes we forget that God created all the stars in the sky, the orbit of the earth, the tree leaf that falls every fall and the heart that beats in our chests. If he keeps all things in order and working, he has our back in our daily lives. God is GOOD! If we are in Him, life is GOOD! Feel me?
Grace and Peace