Feelbe Knees

Hebrews 12:11-13
Do you remember how we started off Hebrews 12:1-3 There’s the WITNESSES, There’s the WEIGHT, There’s the SIN, There’s the RUNNING, There’s the PATIENCE, There’s the RACE, There’s the EYES, There’s the AUTHOR & FIFNISHER, There’s the FAITH, There’s the JOY, There’s the ENDUREANCE, There’s the SHAME, and There’s the FINISH. Before you or I will ever be successful in the Race that is set before us there must be Training and Exercised. As the song so well says “He’s still working on me” which goes along with the saying “I’m not want He wants me to be but I’m not what I once was.”
In V-12 we see the “Hands that Hang Down” and “Feeble Knees.”
What are Feeble Knees
Without our knees we will not be running in NO race! Feeble Knees Luk 5:18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. Here we see 4-men who brought their friend to Jesus and had to take the roof off the house to let him down that he might be healed. The reason for the healing he was sick of a “palsy” {G3886 paraluō par-al-oo'-o paralyzed} the same Greek word is use here in V-12 as “Feeble” A person with palsy is paralyzed, their legs are stiff and locked, so that they do not work properly. As already stated Hebrews 12 starts off with the metaphor of the Christian life as a race. If your legs do not work, then you will become paralyzed and have to stop running. So guess what? God has exercise program designed to loosen up our legs.
Job's three friends came to visit him, Job_2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. Job 2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great. What was the reason they came? “to mourn with him and to comfort him. “ How do you comfort someone without saying a word? From Chapter 4 to 31 deals with jobs friends. If God takes this much time up with friends and how and what they do, it tells me that Friendships are very important. So chose your friends wisely. Pro 17:17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Pro 27:9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Pro 27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Pro 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

What Fear Brings
First thing lets ask was Job a mature, Godly Christian? I believe that God answers that for us without doubt. Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. We must remember that no matter how much we love the Lord that there are no exemption from falling to the prey of fear.
Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. What is your greatest fear? We all have them! Fear will “PARALYZE.” We get to comfortable and we can easily depend on ourselves , our relationships, our wealth and our health and not God. God strengthens our ability to overcome fear by having us face our fear.

Facing Fear
The story of David facing Goliath, everyone in the Israelite army was afraid, fear had over taken then. David didn’t go to fight or come face to face with fear, but he did. What did he do? He trusted God in the hold matter and didn’t allow the fear to over take him. The reason he could trust God here was because when he was attacked by fear once before and he trusted God to work out a matter that was humanly speaking impossible. 1Sa 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
1Sa 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
1Sa 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
1Sa 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. David had trusted God in the Past so he had something in his memory to help for the Present. The problem with some Christians is not their Salvation or their Love for God it’s, they don’t have anything in their memory banks of the past to help in the present.
150 people who were on an airplane that landed on the Hudson a few weeks ago. They never imagined that their plane would go down on the Hudson, and they somehow through all kinds of leadership of a few passengers, a pilot and a crew, they managed to get off that plane. That’s not an easy thing because most people when they see a plane with a wing on fire, they have nothing in their memory bank. They have nothing to draw upon to know how to act in that situation, and the result is what scientists call behavioral inaction. That is, they do nothing. Most people are not wired to deal with the low probability/high consequence events. That means that most of us are not wired to deal with the kinds of crises that pop up in life, the military calls it “situational awareness.” Unless you are aware of the threats in daily life and unless you prepare for them and have a plan of action, you are basically, when the unthinkable happens, there’s nothing in our memory bank to help in the crisis. This was not the case with David he had in his memory banks of a time when he let God work through him. So what are we depending on in the time in which we live?
When the world seems to be crashing down around us, we can trust God to keep His promise to deliver us. Even though the world is filled with evil, troubles, and fears, God will keep His children because He will keep His promises.
Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pro 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.