Perfectly Helpless

"The cubs are born blind and helpless."  This is the sample sentence for "helpless" in the thesaurus.   Other words that can be used in place of "helpless" are incapable, powerless, impotent, and vulnerable. These words, as good a description as they are, still don't convey the completeness of this adjective.  Therefore, I also looked up "completely" in the thesaurus: totally, entirely, wholly, thoroughly, utterly, absolutely and perfectly.  I chose "perfectly" as you can't get any more complete than perfect.  But, as a person that sees more clearly using pictures, even those words as good, solid and simple as they are, cannot convey the magnitude of the point that I want to get across in this post.  I will, then, use an illustration to make it more imaginable.  For we do, indeed, need to get this.

The verse I want to illustrate is from Romans 5:6: "For while we were still helpless..."  Helpless!  Imagine a newly born infant lying on his back or stomach on a bed, the floor or whatever.  He is absolutely powerless to do even one thing to change his circumstances.  He can't turn over, get up, feed himself, take care of himself or survive at all.  He is "perfectly helpless"!  That is us apart from the power of God.  We are "perfectly helpless".  "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly."

Those who read this post were or are like this helpless infant.  If you are in Christ, it is not a position you powered yourself into.  And if you are an unbeliever, you have no ability of your own to accept the claims of Jesus Christ without His divine power energizing your understanding.  We are, everyone, helpless.  The people are born blind and helpless.  And I will add, born with a sin nature that will need transforming.  That transformation has been gifted us by God and God alone.  "God demonstrates His own love for us in this that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."  (Romans 5:8)

Perfectly helpless though perfectly powered by the hand of God through Jesus Christ our Substitute and the Holy Spirit, our divine and daily Enabler!  Praise God for His unspeakable gift.