"Our Great God"

"He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: He layeth up the depth in storehouses." (Psalms 33:7) Along with all the wonders of God's great creation, He has bestowed upon us the power of His Holy Spirit to enable us, and has granted us the power given unto Jesus, our Captain and our Enabler, to have the victory over the sin in our lives. Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as the Helper; and for us to understand how the Helper can assist us in our ability to live holy lives, we must first yield our lives over to Jesus as not only our Saviour and our Redeemer, but He must be Lord of our lives in every area; both areas that pertain to doing good works, and areas that pertain to normal living. Now I know that there are a lot of Christians that do not believe we are meant to live holy lives; the truth in that is displayed in the lives that many of them live, including myself; but Jesus absolutely lived out holiness in His life, and was tempted in all the same things that we are tempted in; even to a greater degree than most people can truly imagine. If you honestly think about it, Jesus had great authority to do things that would have blown the minds of the entire world; some of those things He displayed, all be it in ways that did not draw too much attention to Himself; but He could have done so much more than He did, including saving Himself from the cross, or not yielding Himself unto death, as to hang on that cross until someone were to take Him down and release Him. Do you understand the power that Jesus had to contain; let alone that He humbled Himself to be a servant unto death? Yes, this verse is speaking about God's great power to overcome and trump the laws of nature: making water gather together in heaps, and storing water away in hidden caverns and underground reservoirs for future use; but when it comes to the power of God's Spirit and the untapped power available to all those that might need it, we are not yet to a point of understanding how much power is available, nor shall we truly understand until we are with the Lord in heaven. It's really quite simple to understand how the Holy Spirit works, and there are many normal Christians that have tasted the power of the Spirit in the manner needed to overcome sin; unfortunately, tasting and making Him your full time meal are two very different things all together. The basic laws of human nature, and that which pertains to things that hold us captive, such as vices or bad habits, is that the craving for whatever binds you can only be satisfied by the actual consumption of whatever that might be; and it is only after you have partaken in that substance, that you have satisfied the craving, and then can experience the remorse and guilt that follows. It's just how we are, being born in sin, we gravitate towards what we know will satisfy the cravings we have in our flesh. But God, who has understood our basic laws that contradict His law, has provided for us a Captain; a Captain that not only has the authority to bring us through without a scratch, but who has experience in these charted waters, and can navigate us around every obstacle that might be hidden in these waters... "For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in all things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted." (Hebrews 2:16-18)