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April 2010
First of all, I really ought to explain the title, so you don't have a huge question mark in your mind every time you read my blog. The concept for the name came from the book Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray. (note: wonderful book if you ever get your hands on a copy.) Murray was expounding on the verse, "I am the vine; you are the branches," (John 15:5) and as I was reading I was struck with what he had to say:
"The branch... has no responsibility except just to receive from the root and stem, sap and nourishment... and just so, my Lord Jesus wants me to take that blessed position... and morning by morning and day by day and hour by hour and step by step, in every work I have to go out to, just to abide before Him in the simple utter helplessness of one who knows nothing, and is nothing, and can do nothing."The Lord has been teaching me this truth more and more and not just by a statement like this, but by living every day and seeing more fully that, "All things were create through him [Christ] and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together... that in everything he might be preeminent." (Colossians 1:16b-17&18b) - Christ is the one who makes my footsteps steady, and keeps me in himself. Also, Jesus is "the founder and perfecter of our faith." (Hebrews 12:2) - He began it and is going to make sure it's completed. And that he "works all things according to the counsel of his will." (Ephesians 1:11) - God is sovereign over every detail of my life, and everything that happens is because he has allowed it.
This walk with God is such a life of resting and trusting and realizing that we truly are helpless and in that realization to recognize ourselves a awesomely blessed - knowing that we have a powerful God who works in us with the same power he used to raise his son from the dead (Ephesians 1:19-20)
So I've given you these quotes to round out and explain the term "blessed helplessness" and I hope it has helped to give you a fuller understanding of what it means.
As for the reason of this blog, it exists solely for this purpose:
"To proclaim the excellencies of him who has called me out of darkness into his marvelous light." (1 Peter 2:9)So I love God and enjoy blogging... and when the two meet, I'm lovin' it. =) That is the truth, but in a more serious frame of mind, I believe that blogging will be a wonderful way to declare the goodness of God towards me, and show his "excellencies" and faithfulness, and, I guess, to sum it up, to glorify him. I know, too, that by declaring his greatness to you, I will be built up spiritually as I record his dealings with me, and see his steadfast love manifested towards me throughout my days.
So it is my hope that God would, through this blog,
"Grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:16-21)
