Your Help

When you get into trouble, where do you look to find help? The first thing many of us think of is the police. "Better watch out cuz I'm calling the cops! 9-1-1 baby!" But sometimes it can take 10-15 minutes before the police arrive. A lot can happen in 15 minutes. Are you prepared to deal with all of the things that can happen in a quarter of an hour, filled with desperation? Probably not.

Where do you look for help when you lose your job or have no real source of income? Many turn to our government for help with food assistance, disability checks, or low-income housing. Those things CAN help but they can also become habit forming leading to downright dependence on our government.

How about a serious illness? Lots of people are concerned about that right now. We go to the Emergency Room, see the best doctors and specialists but even THEY don't have a clue sometimes.

There really is no place to turn in this world if we truly want to be 100% safe or 100% healed. Even our faith in Christ doesn't prevent disaster from striking our lives. Christians are martyred everyday for they faith.

The thing we have to remember is this: "It is appointed unto man once to die, but after that, the judgement." - Hebrews 9:27

But then it's too late to ask for help. We need to ask for that help now!

Look, lots of restaurants are closed right now. You can't go there and get a meal with everything shut down. But you CAN call in ahead of time and place an order. Then, when you arrive at the restaurant, you can get just what you came for. But without calling ahead, you'll just be sitting there in the parking lot . . . forever.

When we place our faith in Jesus a lot of stuff begins to happen. We no longer become anxious at every little thing that crosses our path. We receive a sense of "God's got this." We also receive forgiveness of all of our sins - MORE weight listed off of our shoulders!

Where do you get YOUR help. Here's where I get mine.

"I lift up my eyes to the hills -
where does my help come from?
2My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth." - Psalm 121:1-2

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