Now, WHO is the Messiah?

How do you care for people without ruining yourself?

How do you “be the light” when your own candle is flickering?

Airline attendants always tell you, in their spiel before you take off, to put your mask on first before you put one on your child. Why? Because if you can’t breathe you can’t help someone else breathe.

About 4 years ago in church they asked us to think of someone that we would “stand in the gap” to help. I filled out my card, and every time I would flip through my Bible and see the card I would feel convicted to help that person. But what I wasn’t realizing is that draining my funds and constantly rescuing someone is not standing in the gap at all, but “STANDING IN THE WAY” of the Holy Spirit being able to work in that person’s life.

The HOLY SPIRIT took the guilt inducing pressure off and made me realize by closing the door I was standing in, the waters of trial and turbulence would eventually rise and he would float to the top of the pit and be able to get out himself.

I am not good at letting go. Call it a Messiah complex: the idea that I can save someone myself, but the key is to stay in constant communication with the Father and LISTEN to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. I cannot save, but God can. And the thing is, God can not only send out a life line but a boat, a means of not just survival but transport.

Charles Darwin said, “The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.”

Now I am, by no means, a Darwinian, but I think he has a point here. Adaptability is the human equivalent of being transformed by the Spirit. We have to let go and adapt to the will of God.

I was listening to the radio this morning as I traveled to a Chiropractor appointment that was actually tomorrow, and I heard the song THY WILL by Hillary Scott https://youtu.be/Dp4WC_YZAuw

It was a breath of fresh air, these four words,

THY WILL BE DONE

Sometimes when God moves you out of your Messiah role, your caretaker slot, the place you feel needed, it hurts. But here’s the thing, God doesn’t need you there to work. In fact, it is pure sinful pride to think that you are (that I am) the only one who can “stand in the gap.” God is so much more powerful than I am. Selah.

Jesus pleaded with God in the Garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion, “Let this cup pass from Me”(Matt 26: 39), but once he had made this request, He said, “yet not as I will, but as You will.”

THY WILL BE DONE

Perhaps we don’t see an answer to our prayers because we either won’t get out of the way, or we are asking the wrong questions.