In our heads, the Truth we often need to replay is that God did reach down to us through actual incarnation – in and through His Son Jesus Christ. He is accessible. He is near. This is the Gospel. We need to not only replay this, but know this, and experience this. We daily wrestle with the reality of God’s accessibility to us, especially when we walk through the valley of despair and feel as far away from Him as possible. Yet our despair does not negate God’s nearness and presence.

Ephesians 3:12 says, “In Him and through faith in Him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.”

He is approachable even when we play a huge tug-of-war with the eyes of our heart versus the eyes of our physical bodies and minds. He is near even we play a huge tug-of-war with the Truth of the Gospel versus the the way we feel when we are hurt, lost, losing hope, devastated by bad news, alone, and carrying overwhelming burdens. We need help in this war. We need something Supernatural to overcome the natural.

This Supernatural is accessible! It is actually a Someone. And this is exactly why God sent us the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 2:18 says, “For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.” In whatever measure of faith we now have, God doesn’t want us to leave it there. In exercising our faith, He wants us to believe that we have access to Him, that we can experience His nearness. He is faithful to increase our confidence in this spiritual reality. So, when our physical or emotional eyes forsake us and our feelings threaten to drown us, we can still look up and depend on the Holy Spirit to strengthen our faith, however minimal our faith is, and walk us calmly through the tug-of-war zones.

2 Corinthians 12:9 says, “But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

When I am weak, tired, struggling, and lower than low, I must remember that the God of the Universe did reach down to me personally through Jesus Christ and will assist me in experiencing His nearness through the Holy Spirit, especially when I am at my utter weakest and in my most war-weary situation. Christ’s power can indeed rest on me.

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