I was in a bank employment orientation class many years ago and discussing with one of my mates in that class during tea break.
I remember him telling me that he depends on God to even lift this cup of tea from the table onto his mouth. I understood what he was saying.
Each time I get the opportunity to fly in an airplane, I muse to myself how vulnerable and truly ‘helpless’ we can be up there.
It’s not like being in a car where you can stop and get off, right? At such moments, it does come home to me how we truly need the help of God.
Each time I leave my home, I ask for the help of God. Each time I have a meeting, I ask for the help of God.
Whenever I have an assignment to deliver, I ask for the help of God. Whenever I am in a delicate situation, I ask for the help of God. When my health is poor, I ask for the help of God. When things are going well, I ask for the help of God.
As I run my family, I ask for the help of God. Literally, I live my life on the help of God. And I think that was what my mate above meant when he said that he depends on the help of God to drink a cup of tea.
In I Samuel 1:12, it says “Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah.
He named it Ebenezer (which means “the stone of help”), for he said, “Up to this point the LORD has helped us!”
I may not know what your situation is as a person, as a family, or even as a nation. Whatever may be the case, in the passage above, the Philistines had come up against the Israelites to attack them, and when the children of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines. So the children of Israel said to Samuel,
“Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.” God did save them, hence the action by Samuel in verse 12 that followed.
Whatever may represent the ‘hand of the Philistines’ in your case, ask for the help of God. Keep asking for the help of God. Without God’s help, we are nothing. Well, for me, I am nothing.
God is our very present help in times of need.
