THE HELPER...HELP...I NEED SOMEBODY

Greetings and Salutations...O Ye Mooers and Chewers of the Cud of the Word of God. Do ya ever feel as if you are in this thing called life...all alone? Do ya think that if you just had someone beside you...that you could make it?



It is a little known fact...that I...Rodney Lewis Boyd... am the President of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Fan Club...Rockvale Chapter. In my chapter are three members...Me...Brenda...and Phillip. This is NO JOKE. I even have a certificate issued by the AGSRW National Chapter....suitable for framing. The name of the Chapters are based on a line from the show...for example a chapter may be named SHAZAM or HE'S A NUT. Our Chapter is called JUST A BED AND A BIBLE taken from the comment from Brisco Darling when the hotel clerk asked him.."Can I get you anything else Mr. Darling?" Brisco looked at him and said..."Just a bed and a Bible."



I said all of that to say this...I love the Andy Griffith Show...and this first picture is a great one. There Barney Fife is...trying to modernize the Mayberry Sheriff Department's fleet with a motorcycle with a sidecar. He wanted to take Andy for a ride...and of course...as the Barney took off... the sidecar was not attached and left Andy sitting there by himself to the joy of the surrounding men and women. The question is...what does that have to do with THE HELPER...HELP I NEED SOMEBODY? I'm glad you asked...you did ask...didn't you?


As I walk around in this flesh tent that I call a body...sometimes it seems as if I am all alone in a crowd. If I could just have someone like Andy that could ride along with me in the sidecar. For the past 40 or so years...Brenda has been my HELPER (we've been married for 38 years...but we have been together for 41 years). "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be ALONE; for I will make him an help meet (helper) for him." (Genesis 2:18) Well, for Adam that was Eve...for me...it is Brenda...and for those who know me...and those who know Brenda...I NEEDED...and still do NEED HELP.



In the Bible...someone else is called THE HELPER. That would be THE HOLY SPIRIT. "And I (Jesus) will pray the Father, and He will give you another (one of the same kind) HELPER that He (The Helper) may abide with you forever." (John 14:16) "But when THE HELPER comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the SPIRIT OF TRUTH who proceeds from the Father...He will testify of Me."



This Person...THE HELPER...is sent by Jesus via the Father to us to HELP.



The Greek word for HELPER is parakletos (par-ak-lay-toss): From para...beside...and kaleo...to call...hence CALLED TO ONES SIDE. The word signifies an intercessor, comforter, helper, advocate, coundselor. In non-biblical literature, parakletos, had the technical meaning of an attorney who appears in court in another's behalf. The Holy Spirit leads believers to a greater apprehension of gospel truths. In addition to general help and guidance. He gives the strength to endure the hostility of the world system." (Thanks and a Tip O Da Hat to The Spirit Filled Bible and Strong's Concordance)



NOTE: I always find it interesting that the Holy Spirit is called the HELPER...and the woman is called the HELP MEET (helper). I know that when I listen to the Holy Spirit...my life flows easier...and when I listen to Brenda...my life flows easier.



My problem is when I have Andy in the side car (one called along SIDE to HELP)...I pull away and leave my HELP behind. I am just speeding away...travelling along life's highway...thinking I have got it all together...but in reality...I am out there by myself...because of my pride.



NOTE: In the Ruminator Sunday School Class...we talk about why things happen to us in this world. There are many reasons from living in a cursed and fallen world, schemes of the devil, general testing from God...but one of the reasons is what we call THE BARNEY FIFE SYNDROME. This is where Andy told Barney NOT to put the bullet in his gun...but keep it in his shirt pocket...but Barney put it in the gun anyway...and the gun accidentally goes off. If only I would listen to the Holy Spirit...THE HELPER... (or even Brenda)...there would be less accidents brought on myself.


"You can't run...you can't hide from the HOUND OF HEAVEN. This is a line from a Daniel Amos song off of their album classic...HORRENDOUS DISC.



"He got lost among the stars...Hollywood flash, cash, mansions, and cars...deep sea divers, Lear Jet flyers, this thing go to the moon?...oh yeah...give me elbow room, but take this aching away...you can't run, you can't hide from the HOUND OF HEAVEN...you're free to choose, to refuse THE SEEKER OF SOULS." (Hound of Heaven by Daniel Amos)



Wow...what a song...what a thought...what a truth.





The phrase is taken from an old poem (the poet escapes my memory as of this writing)...and speaks of the pursuit of the Holy Spirit...who is as tenacious as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES...in the Sherlock Holmes story.



In the words of THE TEMPTATIONS in their classic song BALL OF CONFUSION... "You can run, run, run...but you sure can't hide."




"Let him who has ears to hear...hear."



Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen...who is even at the right hand of God, who also MAKES INTERCESSION for us. Who shall separate us from the LOVE OF CHRIST? Shall tribulation, or distress or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35) NOTE: The expected answer is no one.



"For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things prsent nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38)



FINAL THOUGHTS...FINALLY...NO REALLY...FINALLY.



All I know is this...I NEED HELP. Help...I need somebody...Help...not just anybody...Help...you know I need someone...HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLPPP!!!!! (Thanks and a Tip O Da Hat to The Beatles). For me...I have found...that my relationship with God...with access by the blood of Jesus...is deepened with my intimacy with THE HELPER.



Love and Helped Kisses

Rodney "I Need The Helper" Boyd