Remember when we were kids and would try to help one of our friends with something and they just kept “not getting it” and after several attempts to aid them in the task we’d say, “Ugh, you’re helpless!”?

I do.  Not very proudly, mind you.  I wish I had the same level of patience and kindness with others at age 10 that I do now but won’t kick myself too hard since, after all, those are the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) which develop over time as one grows in the Lord.

No, I shan’t kick myself too hard but that phrase still rings in my ears as an adult, albeit in a very (very) different way.

You see, I’m no longer the speaker of that phrase but rather the repentant recipient.  And it’s no longer I who shout out that declaration, it’s the Bible, TO me and every other person from birth.

While my fellow frequently-feckless friends and I (who wasn’t at age ten? =) sometimes couldn’t put a bicycle wheel or chain back on properly after a mishap even with my multiple attempts to render aid, until we reach “the point of accountability” (usually referred to the “age of accountability” but it has nothing to do with age, everything to do with mental capacity, which some reach at age four and some much later if ever) the Bible says that we are spiritually helpless.  “Helpless case!”

• “For while we were still HELPLESS, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.” (Romans 5:6)

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