God wants to help!

During the Sunday Service, we were once again reminded that God wants to help us!

Doesn´t it sound basic, straight forward and simple? Yes certainly! But is it not a hard and subsequent difficult action for us to actually count on God´s help for every situation? I know that it is for me! So often I shift back into "Sara mode" and off I go to start looking for a Hagar to get pregnant and get my problem solved and the show on the road!

Isaiah 41: 14 goes on to say:

Do not be afraid, O worm (hey...what kind of an adjective is that?) Jacob,

O little (hmm...what are we trying to say here????) Israel,

For I myself will help you.

Declares the Lord,

Your Redeemer,

the Holy One of Israel.

(oh my god is sooooo big...does anyone out there remember that children´s song???)


Is this not comfort and assurance enough? Why is it that we so quickly fall into doubt and despair? I really wish that I could get this once and for all... you know, like not go round the proverbial mulberry bush again and again because I don´t get it in my head!!

God not only "has" to help me.... he wants to help me and he backs it up with the full weight of His name, His character and His very existence!



It doesn´t take too many guesses to discover who would love me to forget God´s goodness. Who wants me to doubt His love at every turn. The bible teaches us:

Yet, even considering the reality of the spiritual battle that longs for me to deny God I am free and able to turn to God´s word and see for myself what the truth is and reach out for him. I know that God´s help is there for me today and in every and any situation. Whatever I am facing, I am not alone and God wants to help me.

Not according to my conditions, but rather according to His love and my wellbeing at heart conditions! They are always the best condtions!

If I look back over this past year, I can see how God has helped me. No it hasn´t always been void of pain and tears, but I have never been alone. God has ALWAYS been with me. In retrospect I can see that actually God made ways where I thought there were none.

1 Sam 7:12

"Thus far has the Lord helped us!"

Has God not indeed, helped us until now???? Can you not agree and look back with me and see that truly the Lord has helped you thus far????

God does not hand life to us on a silver platter. I don´t know where we get this idea that all things should slide like silk in our lives, it just isn´t biblical. God not only warns us of trials and tribulations he tells us not to be surprized when they come. He didn´t give the promised land to the Israelites without teaching them first to fight the giants! With God´s help they conquered numero battles that logically they should have lost just based on numbers!!! God doesn´t want wimps he wants warriors !!!

He promises to be our personal trainer and help us!

He trains us and purifies our characters, humbles and hunes us where we still think that somewhere along the road we know what we are doing or trust in our own strength and capacity.

Only in complete surrender are we strong and secure and only in trust and confidence do we rest in His everlasting arms.

Whatever your giant today.... remember that the Holy one of Israel will help you!