Psalm 10:14 But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Matthew 9:36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

Psalm 37:39 The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; he is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

The helpless need help. Jesus came as the good shepherd but then He left.

John 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

John 15:26 But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

This is the Word of the Lord, hear this, the Helper has come if you have placed your faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Before we were born again we were helpless to resist sin. Once we are born again the Spirit of Truth has come to help us sort out all of our problems because we are still helpless. We don’t like to admit that and if we take the attitude of “I got this” the Holy Spirit will back away and let us try. If you could hear the Spirit speak to you in those moments it might sound like this.

“Let me know when you need me.”

The Holy Spirit is God and as such maintains the Godly qualities of perfect love which says;

1 Corinthians 13:5 (is not) rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; The Holy Spirit is “4 Love is patient and kind”. If we insist on doing it ourselves, He will let us go our own way. How well did that work for us when we were in need of saving grace?

So when does the Holy Spirit stop us from our reckless behavior? When Father God says, “that’s enough, shut it down.” In my personal experience that is said when my actions place this personal relationship with God at risk. You are free to disagree. That is just my experience.

That is a key element of the power of the Holy Spirit, we do not all require the same amount of help. Nor do we all have the same calling.

1 Peter 1:5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

It is a scary thing to realize this help is eventually going to come to an end. But when?

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Listen to my witness, please.

God answered my first prayer instantly.

“I don’t want to be like this.”

Suddenly without a word my Sovereign God took away the one thing that was troubling me in that moment of confession. He changed me without any effort on my part other than confession.

This is the important part, God is able.

Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

This passage became my new reality. God proved He could by doing what only God can do.

Did God speak to me audibly, no, He spoke to me by doing His will in me because I was lost and confused and was helpless to help myself.

His actions made the scriptures come alive.

Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

God did not use words to communicate His will at that moment but I knew it was this God I had been hearing about in Sunday School. If God had used words, that might have scared me away.

The second lesson to this witness is that God desires to draw you closer, not chase you away.

It is my personal belief that God knows how to reach each person in a way that they can accept Him without scaring them away. We are individuals and we have different problems, concerns and ways of thinking. The universal solution for so many different personalities is one God that can do the impossible, reach you as an individual.

2 Peter 3:18a But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

As we grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord trust is built and we will discover new ways of communicating with our Lord. Those ways will always be consistent with His Word so that we can be assured it is our Lord.