Breakthrough

Have you ever felt truly stuck? In a situation where your actions are not causing any change or improvement?

Our Church has been examining the book of Ephesians in the Bible, and as we do so one recurring theme is becoming evident; that God is VERY powerful and can breakthrough human experience and deliver us to a new day, a new experience, a new horizon in life.

Once, I was travelling home on a single lane, lonely country road in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by farms, frost and fog and nature called in the most urgent manner. I pulled over onto a dirt side-road, forgetting totally that it had been raining for almost a week (ah, the good ol' days before the drought!) and got severely bogged. Fortunately, a Council road team happened to come by and pull me out.

• People can help us out.
• Society and its social safety nets can help us out.
• Self-knowledge and self-help teachers can help us out.

But for some situations, only the mighty hand of God can deliver us from our incapacity and impotency. Yes, He might use other people or a self-help guru, or He might need to send His Spirit in power and do an amazing inner, spiritual work that is unseen but VERY real.

Remember the powerful words of the Bible; "those who call on the name of the Lord will be saved!"