Have you ever felt helpless when you struggled with an issue but couldn’t resolve it? It’s
incredibly frustrating to spin your wheels but see no results. It’s a good thing that God didn’t leave us completely alone to deal with our problems all by ourselves. When He made us, He knew we’d need plenty of help in life, which is why He’s the helper who enables us to succeed.
To enable is to provide someone with the means to do something, and as God’s beloved daughters, we need to lay hold of the enablement that comes through grace. We need a revelation of the things that He enables us to do. So many times we see the word “enabler” in a negative connotation. I won’t harp on the world’s view of enablers who go overboard in helping someone and inadvertently keep them from doing things for themselves, but we need to look at it through God’s perspective.
Sometimes the English translation of the Bible doesn’t give us a broad enough meaning of what the author meant. The Greek translation is kephale, or Christ being our enabler. This relates to Him as being the head of the church and enabling us to do this life and to live life in victory.I remember times when I struggled because I was trying to do things my way and it just wasn’t working out. I was trying to handle the situation by myself, and I’d just get frustrated. I had to reach a point where I realized that only through my relationship with God, and Him living on the inside of me, was I able to do anything at all. Being in Him completes me.
As the head, God existed before anything else was made, and now everything finds completion in Him. Sisters, this includes you and me! He’s our completer; in everything that we endeavor to do in our lives, we have to recognize that God is the one who completes. This includes our relationships; the relationships we make in and of ourselves should take a backseat to the ones we have through Christ.
Finding ourselves in God and establishing our identity in Him makes Him a satisfied Father. He wants us to know that He’s our source. God longs for us to run to Him, to have fellowship with Him, and to realize that He wants to make our lives easier so that we’re not beating ourselves up or wearing ourselves out. He’s satisfied with us when we rely on Him.
We mustn’t go too fast here and gloss over what God says about leaning into Him and leaning on His grace; depending on Him empowers us. It’s easy to think that we can complete things on our own, and we’ve been fed the notion that powerful women can do it all, but that’s wrong. We can have a mindset of doing things in and of our own strength, our own tenacity, our willpower, or our self-will. The Bible says that God—not us—is the completer.
God has a way of bringing us to the end of ourselves to make us look at ourselves and ask, “Is this about me, or about Him? Who am I giving glory to? Am I able to testify about what I did, or about what God did for me?” This is humbling, but doing this from time to time keeps us from getting too proud of our own accomplishments and reminds us to be thankful.
God does things we can’t. Ladies, He’s offering us a helping hand. Take Him up on His offer.
