Created to be Helpless

The Holy One calls me today to celebrate Heavenly visions of earth-bound resolutions.  Like in the days of Daniel, sometimes we are required to wait for the answers from above to reach our circumstances here on earth.

The pause is so often mis-interpreted to be a denial of our petition when God has already approved our requisition and it is on the way.  Interference by the enemy can be the cause for the delay as God's Heavenly Host do battle in the Spirit realm while escorting God's provision and answer into our hands and lives. 

A read of Daniel's vision of a man in the book that bears his name chapter 10, he quotes the Angelic Being sent to him from Heaven;s Throne, "Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to understanding and to humble yourself before your God,  your words were heard and I have come in response to them.  But the Prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me 21 days.  Then Michael, one of the Chief Princes came to help me because I was detained there with the King of Persia.  Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future for the vision concerns a time yet to come."

As the Angel, continues to speak to Daniel the overwhelming sense that Daniel describes of himself is "bowed face to the ground", "speechless", "helpless", "strength gone", "hardly able to breathe".  Then in Daniel 10:15, he says, "again the one who looked like a man touched me and gave me strength.  "Do not be afraid, O man highly esteemed", he said, "Peace, be strong, now be strong."  When he spoke I was strengthened."

 As I read this account of Daniel, the Holy One speaks, "You were created to be helpless".

Tell that to all the Hollywood movie makers who portray the human with total power to survive any and all imaginable threats to our human existence.  Somehow, we think we are invincible, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and ace every challenge we face given enough time to calibrate the threat.  But really how many of us live in that condition day in and day out?

The picture Daniel painted helps me to realize how really small and vulnerable we are in the bigger realms we barely know exist. This passage has so many interesting things to learn and I am excited to ponder all it contains.  The Holy One has taken me here today to think about the cause of delayed answers and to understand that the feelings of helplessness I experience are OK and more than OK they are actually a part of God's design.  Helplessness produces dependency. 

The old lie so many have been taught that "God helps those who help themselves" needs to be eliminated from our favorite list of quotable quotes. It is a lie through and through.  It drives us out of a dependant relationship that God has ordained in Creation for us to experience, enjoy and thrive in.  If I believe that lie for half a minute, I will search for what I can do and not petition my Heavenly Father for what He alone can do.

Then there is the issue of the delay in answer to my prayers.  The pause, the silence that is deafening.  This passage of scripture reveals some details of another realm that affects our life here on earth.

Answers passing through the Heavenlies, brought  to us by Angelic Guardians.  Spiritual resistance by evil forces.  Power struggles between unseen Heavenly Beings.  The ultimate victory by God's Agents created to oversee and help us.  A fantastic picture of another world and it's invisible impact on our world today.  Truth far more exciting and profound than fiction.  And somehow we are the center piece of God's Created universe around which all this action rotates.

The feelings of helplessness grow when I consider the magnitude of all I don't know.  But then I begin to realize that it's not my fault for being helpless.  It is the way we were created.

The Holy One takes me to another place of comfort against my anxiety,  Psalm 91 where God's Sovereignty and our protection is assured.

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.  I will say of the Lord He is my fortress, my God in whom I trust."  Psalm 91:9, "If you make the Lord your dwelling, even the Lord who is my refuge, then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.  He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways."

Knowing that I am created by God to be helpless and dependant on Him, I can surely trust in His Sovereign plan to take care of me.  And if the unseen realm of God's creation is inhabited by such powerful beings as Angels who are assigned to guard me in all my ways, I realize being helpless isn't so bad. With all that action going on in the unseen realm in my behalf, I guess I can be patient and wait for the answers to arrive.

The Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?