We're All In Need

Yesterday, we spent some time in a public place with some friends. I had been studying my Bible moments before, so it was sitting on the ground beside my chair. A gentlemen walked up, saw it and said something like, “that right there… that’s the best tool out here.” My friend beside me quickly said, “Oh, that’s right! That right there is exactly what [insert the name of the town] needs!”

 

I responded, to them both, “That’s what I need!”

 

I have no interest in being hard on my friend, but everywhere I look I see this mentality. Oh, how this people “need God.” That people “need truth.” Those over there, oh boy do they ever “need saved!” “They” (others) are always in need of help.

 

I often wonder how the Body would look if we weren’t so infatuated with what everyone else needs and focused on ourselves first. We have, of course, inherited a belief system that tells us that would just be selfishness, but that’s not how I see it at all. I see people shouting out how badly those around us need a lifesaver, yet many are equally drowning all around them, whilst wearing a badge of “Christianity.”

 

Perhaps we either need to remember, or for the first time have the revelation of, our own personal need. In this place, we’re all in a very similar condition - want, lack, self and sin. I’m fully convinced that true personal humility and vulnerability will lead more people to Yeshua than perhaps anything else.

 

I need a Saviour. I need a Teacher. I need a Father. I need correction. I need to learn to better deny myself. And yes, I too need that Bible that laid on the ground beside me. We all do. Selah. – J

 

Psalm 139:23&24 Search me, O Elohim, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts and see if there be any offensive way within me, and lead me in the way everlasting.