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heavenly light

Monday 30 August 2010

Our Help


Our Help

Then she came and worshipped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!"
Matthew 15:25

Recommended Reading
Psalm 121

Earlier this year, a black bear in Vermont got into trouble. He was nosing around where he shouldn't and got his head stuck in an old-fashioned milk can. He lumbered around for hours bumping into trees and boulders before being spotted near the highway to Reading. It took quite a while for biologists, firefighters, and police to figure out how to help him. They used soap to lubricate his head, but that didn't work. Finally they managed to cut the can off his head.

It happens to all of us from time to time. But we have a God who is a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1). He is our help and our shield (Psalm 33:20). Our help comes from the One who made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:2). When we pray, we're coming to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). "Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God" (Psalm 146:5, emphasis added).

O God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come....
Isaac Watts

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