Lessons.

Yesterday was a day of realization and revelation for me.

Un. There is a word in the New Testament that is translated as 'He helps.' This word is sunantilambanetai (I think).
And it doesn't mean help.
Sun-with
Anti-the other side
Lambanetai-he takes hold.

Dr. Morris explained it like this. Suppose that you were trying to lift a long table from one side. You might be able to get your own side up, but that's it. The ministry of the Holy Spirit then is to take a hold of the other side and carry it with us.
"God won't do anything for us that we can do ourselves," he said. We have to do everything we can, and then the Lord does everything that we can't.

Deux. There is a difference between deserving and worth. Just because you don't deserve something doesn't mean you're not worth that thing.
Prime example: No one deserves salvation. But, each and every one of us is worth the death of Christ.
To often, we get caught up in our deserving, as if we could do something to attain some kind of reward when in reality, we need to embrace our worth, which we have simply because we are created by the Master's hand and because His image resides in each one of us.

Trois. Not as much a realization or revelation as it is just something I found in the Gospel of Mark that I keep forgetting. Last night, I read Mark 5 before bed, and I found a theme developing.
The scene opens with Jesus and the disciples coming ashore in Genessaret and being welcomed by a man living among the tombs who was possessed by an army of demons calling themselves "Legion." The word says, "No one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain," and "no one was strong enough to subdue him anymore." The people had tried to help him, and had found their efforts fruitless, and so they had given him to his fate, content to stay away from him, leaving him there in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with rocks.
Then, Jesus.
Jesus came and cast the demons from him. When the townspeople came, they saw that same men 'dressed and in his right mind.'
Next, a woman plagued with bleeding for twelve years who had been to every doctor, and 'it never got better. Instead, it got worse.' She touches Jesus' cloak and is instantly healed.
A synagogue leader named Jairus has a sick daughter. He brings Jesus to her, and on the way, a messanger comes and tells them she is dead. Jesus says, 'Don't be afraid, just believe,' and when He arrives, she is well again.

Everyone in Mark 5 was at the end of hope. Everything possible had been done, but with no results.
Then, Jesus.

Amen, amen, and amen.