Help, where does it come from!

Most of us don’t believe dark and mysterious providences with resultant struggles will ever become ours. We know there will be difficult days at intervals in life, but not the harrowing sagas others may know. Dark and black days becoming seasons of gloom and doom only happen to our neighbors and those a distance from us. They don’t happen to us! Our placid circumstances become our value, we remain comfortable and content with easygoing experiences and don’t find the necessity to be prepared for unexpected storms. We don’t believe the uncomfortable and compromising seasons will ever be ours. In a sense we are living in denial, denial that we are living in a fallen world!

Then we’re hit. And, we’re hit hard. We are unprepared, bewildered and our footing threatens to give way. When this occurs we know we need help. We’re forced to act. We need to do something to help us through and out of the bleakness.

What are the resources, and where are the resources you turn to when in a critical need?

Do you become bogged down and wallow in your trial?

Do you look directly ahead at those things around you to alleviate, or remove the problem?

Do you pacify your emotions with distracting outlets: television, socializing, food, alcohol?

Where do you turn for help?

Do you look up? Do you look to your heavenly Father who ordains all things for you? Do you look to Him in expectancy, with hope, knowing who He is, knowing His character? Do you know the reasons you’re in the difficulty you’re in? Do you have confidence in His purposes for you – changing and transforming you? Are you sure of His promises? Do you know Him as a faithful Father? Do you know of His attributes? What are they, how do they relate to you?

Look up. Look up to who He is. Know Him!

• I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:1-2).

• To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us (Psalm 123:1-2).

• The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man. The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence (Psalm 11:4-5).

• We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers (Romans 8:28-29).

• My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses (Psalm 25:15-17).

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