Thursday, September 17, 2009

Good Help is NOT Hard to Find!

If you’re standing on a ladder trying to put up a long board you are likely to get frustrated. You can try to figure out all kinds of funky methods to do it by yourself but the easiest thing to do is to ask for help. But to do that you have to humble yourself and inconvenience someone else but it’s really the only wise way to do it. Fulfilling the will of God often involves things like putting up boards that are way to long for us. He asks us to do things that are beyond our knowledge and ability. We can waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to succeed by ourselves but it will never work because He never planned for us to do it alone. He sent the Holy Spirit who has unlimited power and ability, to help us! And said when we need a hand to just ask. And, “You have not because you ask not.” He is our ever present help in time of need and we need Him all the time. Living a godly life seems to require constant growth and change and is like putting up long boards all day long. If we will humble ourselves and receive His grace He will help us and we thrive and prosper. And if we don’t we will get frustrated and probably end up falling off the ladder and wondering why life is so hard and why, “God let this happen to us.” So there’s only one wise thing to do. We need to ask for help and keep on asking. Because the truth is, “we need help” and especially in the areas of life that we are currently failing in. So continue to struggle or get some good help? You decide, but I think I need to go pray now.

Heb 4:16
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
NKJV

Heb 4:16
16 So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.
MES

Heb 4:16
16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].
AMP

Ps 46:1
46 God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
NKJV

Ps 46:1
46 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
NIV

Ps 46:1
1 GOD IS our Refuge and Strength [mighty and impenetrable to temptation], a very present and well-proved help in trouble.
AMP