But I am poor and needy;
Yet the Lord thinks upon me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
- Psalm 40:17
Broken promises. Anyone in recovery, or in need of recovery, from addiction and or habitual sin is familiar with broken promises. We make promises. We break promises. Promises to family and friends. Promises to ourselves. Promises to God. We try. We want to do better and be better. We see the need for change in our lives and our spirit. We repent and are truly sorry for the state of our life and the things that have dominion over us that shouldn't. But then we make the mistake of rising up in our own strength, determined to do better, to do it right from this point forward. And we fall on our face, failure after failure, time after time.
The key to victory and finding freedom is not in seeing the need to change. It is not in believing we should or even must change. It is in understanding we are poor, as in we do not possess the resources necessary. We are needy. We can not control or defeat this thing, whatever it is. We need help. From where does our help come from? From the Lord. He is our deliverer, our liberator. To find the help we need, we don't need to try harder, but rather be quick to turn to Him and ask for His aid. Come quickly, Lord and do the work, because we can't do it.
Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God. If we want to see the rule of God in our lives instead of the rule of addiction and sin and the old nature, we must understand and accept our neediness, our inability to do it ourselves. But when we accept that we can't and He can, we can find freedom in Him, provided by our deliverer. He will not delay to help us when we give the fight to Him and admit that we are not able. We can rely on His promises, which are never broken, so that we don't continue in the cycle of repentance, promises, broken promises and more repentance.
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