Come What May...(Now What? Series Part II)

October 2, 2009

Danielle Joyner Kelley

“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:26.

In practice, the commitment to stay on God’s path and follow Christ is filled with temptation to deviate and start walking on our own path. Fighting that temptation can seem overwhelming in practice even to the most committed follower.

As humans, we are used to trying to control everything, and once we are told that we have to walk in faith, we search for how to do it using our own worldly knowledge. When we fall, we convince ourselves it is too hard, and we do not understand how God could have given us such a huge task with no help. The irony is that this is also the moment we beg Him to tell us the future so we can know what to do when, in reality, we cannot even handle the present.

The truth is that walking in faith requires us to ask Him for the help we need to follow. Some people find it troubling that they have to ask an all-knowing God, who can change anything, for help. But before we ask why He cannot just change everything so we do not need help, we should consider the relationship of a parent and child. A parent would not jump in to do the child’s homework for them, but would stand by and see how much the child knows to do on their own. If the parent did the opposite the child would not learn anything. It is out of love the parent watches until the child struggles with something and then asks for help.

Understanding the magnitude of Jesus sacrifice is key to understanding the help God provides to us. Most believers do not understand how to talk to their guide, and that misunderstanding is because they do not see the link between the Old Testament and the New Testament, when Jesus had come to Earth. The guide is the Holy Spirit, and Jesus sacrifice has everything to do with how you access Him for assistance.

Once you learn to access Him, you will retain not only help and assistance, but strength and power that you could hardly imagine. And that strength and power will show you exactly how to follow God,

Come what may….

**Part III of the “Now What?” Series will discuss the link between the Old and New Testament that helps you to understand the Holy Spirit’s role in you staying on course with God.