“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Our text is one biblical reminder that we are never alone, for God is with us. He is not with us only in times of trouble, but He is with us at all times. You are not alone! You are not alone because God is always with you. If you are a believer in Jesus, the Holy Spirit is not only with you, He is abiding in you. If you are not a believer in Jesus, the Holy Spirit is pulling at your heart waiting for you to invite Jesus into your life. God is not unaware of any human being, and longs for all to be saved. Keep in mind that God is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent! You are not alone even when you have “bad days.” Some days you feel that God has forgotten about you, or abandoned you. There are days when everything goes wrong and you feel defeated. Relax, we all have those days. But Jesus is not dead in those days, and the Holy Spirit is not inactive. I am in the process of reading Job as I write this, and the thought came to me that when we feel God-forsaken, we need to think of Job. Every time I read Job, I think, “And I think I’ve got problems.” But God had not forsaken Job and He has not forsaken you. When you are having a good day God is with you. Sometimes we feel that we have this thing called life all wrapped up. We might think, “Why do I need God. I can do this thing myself.” I am reminded of times when I have gone into the pulpit thinking that I know how to preach and the result was that I left the pulpit with the thought that I don’t know how to preach. We have a tendency to go our own way, and like Sinatra, we do it “my way.” Just like I can’t preach like that, you cannot approach life like that. Not only is God with us, we need for Him to be with us to offer us guidance. Jesus knew that we needed God’s guidance when He sent the Holy Spirit to convict us and to live in us. You need to remember that God is always with you to inspire and encourage you. He is also with you to get you back on the right path when you leave it. He has given you the Holy Spirit to gift you and to use you in His service. As God is with you as an “ever present help in trouble.” He is “an ever present help in all of life.” You just need to remember that you are never alone, because God is always with you. Bro. Joe
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