This is a very good question for each of us to ask of ourselves. Who is the Lord? Is He my Lord (Master)? Is He big enough, in my eyes, to solve and be the solution to any, and all, of my problems? Is He strong to me? Is He mighty to save? Is He Great and Greatly to be praised in my life? Or are my problems bigger and without solutions?
Jesus was alone, but the plan was not that He remain alone in His plight, nor in His victory! He was the firstborn of many brethren, any and all who are called and chosen and choose can share in that slavation!
He did the hard part, kind of like a first baby being the first and hardest in all areas.
He opened the womb of the church and now any of us who decide to bear His name can not only be saved, but are designed to accompany God in His earth plans!
God, the Father cannot be a Father without sons. We are His sons and daughters. We are who He created that He’d have lovers and friends and not be alone. He designed man in His own image and said it was not good for man to be alone, and so He created a helper for man. God also has helpers in us, if we will to do His good pleasure.
How do we grieve the Holy Spirit? We go our own way, choose our own way of being and doing life and we refuse His ways as our own!
People are not realizing how much even the church is grieving the Spirit, when they love and serve the Father and Son, and will not receive the Spirit participating with Him receiving His gifts. It is serious stuff to reject God.
If we receive Him, He receives us, if we reject Him, we too will be rejected. If we confess Him before men, then He also will confess us before his Father in the day when we need to be covered.
God treats us as though we do not belong to Him when we reject Him. It is our choosing. We bring that distancing on ourselves.
We’d like our cake and to eat it also. We want to be able to do what we want, when we want it, and have God right by our side almost as our humbled unconditionally loving serving God. We must ask again, Who is God (to me)?
Do I live the way I want and expect His blessings no matter what and if they don’t come I whine and complain and do not understand it?
Or am I willing to obey Him at all cost to my own lifestyle choices? Can God tell me no?
Am I willing to change my ways of life to take all of His ways of life in? How great is He to me? Do I serve Him or in my eyes does He serve me? This sounds absurd on paper, but this is how Christians (in America anyway), arrogantly live! Do I serve Him or do I expect Him to serve me?
When I get a revelation of His greatness, there is no question who serves who.