A Helpful Reminder

“My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” - Psalm 121:2

Consider today this blessed thought. Dear saint, your help comes from the Lord. It does not reside in your limited abilities, nor is it found within your measly circumstances. No, your help, indeed, your hope is found in none other than God Almighty. The One who spoke the world into existence is right by your side. In fact, better than that, He is within you. 

Now, why might it be to our advantage to remember this today? Well, despite our feelings of frailty and dismay, we have every reason to face this week in full confidence that whatever our need, He can provide. His resources have no limit; there is no task too big for our God. We just need to look out the window for evidence of this. The one who designed this beautiful planet, He who spoke the wondrous skies into existence, He is our help.

But then, perhaps we enter this Monday falsely clinging to someone or something that is far less certain. We feel good about our position in life; we’re doing well at work; we seem successful at home. We must remember that our help is from above. Nothing here below can make that claim. To see ourselves as sufficient for our day-to-day tasks, is simply setting ourselves up for disappointment. Our help comes from the Lord.

Meditation on this simple verse should move beyond us as well. For if our confidence is found in heaven’s Maker, then no accomplishment or set of achievements can be attributed to our creative strengths or efforts. Glory will rightly return to the One who is worthy. If trouble comes our way this week, will we be looking to our savings or our Savior? Our resourcefulness or our Sustainer? Will such dependence upon the Lord not ultimately point others to their only Helper as well?

Our help has come from God alone. It will continue to pour forth from His endless fountain of grace. The One who fashioned all that we can observe and the vast galaxies beyond what we can see, was intricately involved in making you and me. He has given us life and breath and everything else. He has formed our shapes, sizes, and personal dispositions as He so pleased. He is our help and the hope of the nations. Let us embrace the week with this truth before us. Our help comes from the Lord!

Matt Fowler
Associate Pastor of Missions & Students
matt@nbchurch.info
@fattmowler