The Helper
Read the story here:John 16:5-15
The
words, “God, I need help!” have come from the lips of every Christian at some
point in life. The wonderful thing about
this short prayer is that God provided the help we need long ago—at Pentecost. Inside every believer dwells an intimate,
all-sufficient Helper with one goal: to ensure we grow in Christlikeness.
Even
before we become believers, the Holy Spirit starts working to reveal the
character of Jesus. Remember the vivid
story of scales falling from the eyes of Saul (later known as Paul) to end his
blindness? (Acts 9:18) A similar thing
happens as we receive the Spirit’s instruction.
He pulls away our scales of unbelief and manifests the true nature of
Jesus Christ. First, God’s Spirit
testifies to the saving power of Jesus; then, after we have become believers,
He acquaints us with the Lord’s character through Bible reading and observation
of God’s work in our daily life.
Our
dependence upon the Holy Spirit should grow in tandem with our understanding of
God. As we learn of the Christ to whom
we are being conformed, the Holy Spirit at the same time reveals our inadequacy
to appropriate such divine attributes without His coping so that He may live
out Christ’s character through us. We
trade frustration for peace, anger for patience, and shallow happiness for pure
joy as we become more like the Lord we serve.
With the aid of our divine Helper, our old existence of lonely
desolation is pushed away in favor of a triumphant Christian life.
-Author unknown
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