Where Does Your Help Come From?

My Utmost For His Highest

 

‘“. . . the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). Where do the saints get their joy? If we did not know some Christians well, we might think from just observing them that they have no burdens at all to bear. But we must lift the veil from our eyes. The fact that the peace, light, and joy of God is in them is proof that a burden is there as well. The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility’ CHAMBERS

 

If you read Galatians 5:16-25 you will see a great contrast between the person who live in dependence on the flesh and the one who lives by the Spirit.  God has sent us a Helper … to live this life in Christ.  The Spirit was not sent solely for the purpose of salvation, but also for sanctification, so we would be a light in the midst of spiritual darkness, but also for edification, so we would have the capacity to live our new life in victory. The fruit of the Spirit is not for a select few super-saints, but for every Believer.  The world really isn’t interested in a life that has no trouble or sickness or loss or any of the other things that plague humans in this world.  But as we are squeezed in God’s winepress … the result is the fragrance of Christ … something super – natural … extra-ordinary … note worthy ....

 

2 Corinthians 4:7-9 ” But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”

 

If you are not “feeling it”.  But rather, you are feeling defeated … without hope … hurt … maybe you are looking in the wrong place.   Psalm 121:1-2 “I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

 

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)