Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Someone wrote an essay about how Jesus Christ needs help in His gigantic struggle in His great controversy with Satan. It's a different idea; their essay is breaking new ground for many.
We know that God is omniscient--that is, He knows everything; ... but wait a moment, in His incarnation Jesus was God but He was not omniscient, for sometimes we read the phrase, "When Jesus knew it …" (Matt. 12:15; Mark 8:17). And He tells us that He does not know the day nor the hour of His second coming, only the Father knows that (Mark 13:32).
We know also that God is omnipotent--that is, He can do everything; ... but wait another moment, He cannot barge through anyone's locked door (Rev. 3:20). He cannot (because He will not) interfere with anyone's choice to believe or to disbelieve His gospel truth.
We know that the Holy Spirit is the most powerful force in the universe; He can convict of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8), but He steps back and yields the sovereignty to every individual human will. (But thank God He can reveal a greater measure of the constraining love of Christ and can take away hindrances to faith; but there is a point beyond which He will not and cannot go.)
Christ cannot refuse to be crucified. We must have our way.
When there was "war in heaven" and one-third of the angels were "cast out into the earth," the essay's author suggested that He needed the help of the two-thirds who remained loyal to Him (Rev. 12:7-9).
Yes! And now as that same "war" is nearing its end, He desperately needs you and me to help Him. Hold your head high! You have an important place to fill in "the great controversy" that no one else can fill as well as you.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: July 1, 2006.
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