My Help
Psalm 121:1-8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills [around Jerusalem, to sacred Mount Zion and Mount Moriah]—From whence shall my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand [the side not carrying a shield]. 6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will keep you from all evil; He will keep your life. 8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Yesterday as I encountered the new day that was to become my yesterday and that new day began to dawn, I found myself in a place of thankful contemplation, because God has always been my help but I am able to truly recognize Him as my help in areas I had missed before or just did not realize He even cared about or thought of. The song “My Help,” rang through my head as I wrote yesterday’s devotional, because as I read scriptures previous to writing I read the scripture that the song was based upon. I am not seeing God in some of the traditional ways that we see God, but non-traditional means, in my school work, in my resolve, my need for deeper relationship, fellowship and followship. Even in my financial situations and discerning relationships as well. I now understand what my Grandmother and many of the older saints would declare when I was just a child that “God is an on time God and if we seek Him, He can be found and He will deliver us out of every situation.” They also used to say, “He may not come when you want Him, but He is right on time.” Truly He is becoming that God of “All I Need.”
As I write I know that there are others that are in a state of discovery with God, they are beginning to see Him as a type of help they have never experienced previously because they have never needed Him in these capacities, or you may not have been mature enough to recognize His ability to help, or that He was even actually helping a situation as it was transpiring. God is our help, He inspires us when we lack inspiration, He enlightens us when the lights are sometimes on but no one is home (when we are clueless). God provides for us, mental fortitude to just keep it moving at times. He gives us patience when that person is plucking our last nerve or sometimes just to believe that He will come through, so that we can wait in peace. He gives us staying power when we just want to throw up our hands and walk away. God is so much more of a help, than just someone that gets us the job, or the one who blesses us, delivers us, heals us, saves us and gives us favor. He reveals the enemy, and shows us how to deal with them. He gives us insight to people’s true motivation, when we are only attempting to do what is right and their intentions are to take us for a ride. God helps by protecting our seed, and protecting our lives as well as our families, so that the enemy can do us no harm.
Often we are looking for God to help and show up in the big things and we miss Him showing up every day, helping us and assisting us. We often get so consumed that we don’t recognize that if it had not been for the help of the Lord some people may have been, cussed, fussed, told off, given a piece of our minds or even the whole mind. We don’t look at the fact that when murder was on our mind God helped to restrain us and keep us from carrying the thoughts out. We miss that God allowed the argument between us and our spouse, friend, or family member to end with no blood shed and the relationship still intact. We don’t think about how many times we knew we should not do something, because it was unhealthy for us or it would jeopardize our place with Him, or our position, and we were able to consider our ways and we thought on what Jesus would do. All of these things are God being our help. Don’t be so consumed looking for the big finale that you miss the content of the show of God’s daily help and power!
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