I can not do it myself
Robert MORTON
The Life of Jesus; read today: Multitudes mock Jesus; Matthew
27:39-43; Mark 15:29-32; Luke 23:35-37
On Wednesday nights at the church I attend we have a self-help group
running for people who have co-dependency issues. One thing that I
have learned from them is that a person can not help themselves get
out of their addictions. Nor can you help anyone else out of their
addictions. If you try, you run the risk of becoming codependent and
having an addiction to trying to fix them.
The only way one can come out of those addictions to recognize that
they can not do it in their own strength. As I have gone through this
program, I have had to say that I am powerless in myself, that I can
not break the chains. However, if I turn acknowledge that I have the
problem, and turn to God for help (a higher power as some
organizations say), then God can help me through the problems. To put
it bluntly, I can not save myself.
ESV: Mark 15:31. So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him
to one another, saying, He saved others; he cannot save himself.
Here is a man who could save Himself. Jesus had not only the power to
come off that cross, but since He had not sinned, He should not have
been up there and had the right to do so. If He had done so I would
still be in my co-dependent state. I could not save my self, I had to
have God do it for me by having His Son die for me. For years I tried
to do things in my own power, until I realized that I could never do
it for myself, I had to have help.
Read for next time: Robbers mock Jesus; Matthew 27:44, Mark 15:32; Luke 23:39
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