A Special Dependence
“Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3
John Wyatt says the following in “God’s design for our life is that we should be dependent”:
“We come into this world totally dependent on the love, care, and protection of others. We go through a phase in life when other people depend on us, and most of us will go out of this world, totally dependent on the love and care of others.
This is not an evil, destructive reality. It is part of the design, part of the physical nature that God has given us.
I sometimes hear old people, including Christian people who should know better, say, “I don’t want to be a burden to anyone else. I’m happy to carry on living so long as I can look after myself, but as soon as I become a burden, I would rather die.”
But this is wrong. We are all designed to be a burden to others. You are designed to be a burden to me, and I am designed to be a burden to you. The life of the family, including the life of the local church family, should be one of “mutual burdensomeness.”
“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you will fulfil the law of Christ” Galatians 6:2.
Christ himself takes on the dignity of dependence. He was born a baby, totally dependent on the care of his mother. He needed to be fed, he needed his bottom to be wiped, and he needed to be put properly up when he rolls over. And yet he never loses his divine dignity.
And at the end, on the cross, he again becomes totally dependent, limbs pierced and stretched, unable to move. So in the person of Christ, we learn that dependence does not, and cannot, deprive a person of their dignity, of their supreme worth. And if dependence was appropriate for the God of the universe, it is certainly appropriate for us.”
Jesus desires us to develop a special dependence on Him. Humbly come before the Lord, call on Him and trust in Him by faith.
“Never does he who clings to God despair because he is never without resources.” – Jacques B. Bossuet
“Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” Jeremiah 29:12