Yesterday, when I finished my chore, the Holy Spirit encouraged me to help out my cousin who was still doing the dishes. He wasn’t using the indoor sink, yet the scorching sun had risen, and it takes him about an hour to clear everything.
When I scrubbed the pans, in total, we spent about 30 minutes only.
The Holy Spirit then said that’s what He does as a Present Help: He enables us spend only half the time it’d have taken anything to be done. It’s our onus then to allow Him help. For when He comes in the picture He brings in the two aspects of restoration; which are speed and redemption.
Even if we spent half the time, He says He doesn’t need 5 years to enable you do something that requires 10! He can use one year!
When I meditated longer, I realized it’s not just about speed. We all have that expiry day that we must exit this realm. If we are two handed, the day might find us not done with our individual assignments. But with four hands — and not just extra human hands but the hands of God, we’d finish quite early.
Remember during exams? There used to be that one person who finishes an hour before time. The Spirit wants to enable us finish our assignments way before our lifespans. We’ll then just swing on our chairs as we await the time to leave the exam room.
We’d rather enjoy ‘retirement’, than panic, seeing we haven’t finished a whole other number and yet the invigilator has said ‘Pens down. Time’s up. Arise and hand in.’
Unless it’s a general issue, rarely do we find that we are added extra time. We must then acknowledge the extra hands to quicken us.
This Present Help I believe was the oil that was in the parable of the virgins. We all have the Holy Spirit but He’s not accorded to as much as He must be.
In due process, we do not consult His wisdom to carry extra oil. I believe this parable was emphasizing the wisdom as opposed to the oil. We must transcend merely carrying the oil but bear wisdom, one of the 7 spirits of God (Isaiah 11:2). Wisdom was with God as He created everything. She must be that important.
The wisdom here is to know that if employed, He’ll quicken us. And then this wisdom will make us like the sons of Issachar: able to understand the times we each are living in or the seasons we are experiencing — that we might know what to do… Whether to tarry in the upper room, or go to Cornelius. Whether to be still, or to get out the boat and walk towards Jesus. Whether to strike the rock or speak to it.
In conclusion, we need Him. We can’t do without Him. If we are to receive that ‘Well done good and faithful servant’, we need to yield and invite Him. We need to know Him intimately as Jesus did. For it was only by Him that Jesus brought in a harvest of 100 fold.
And if He needed Him, then surely we need Him.
Remember the clock is ticking, and the scorching sun dawns … Let His judgement — the noon, not find you still outdoors.
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Psalms 46:1 God [is] our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
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