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God Is Our Help!

LORD, you have been our help, generation after generation. Before the mountains were born, before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world—from forever in the past to forever in the future, you are God.

—Psalm 90:1-2

Time is a relative thing and may not seem like an issue. You may not even have a good sense of what it means for something to be permanent since so few things are. Perhaps that is why we don’t quite understand our God, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We try to grasp what forever means, but it’s beyond our time zone.

This psalm reminds us that God is still our help. Fortunately for us, he has not grown weary of watching over us or taking care of us. Norman Vincent Peale offers us an idea of how to embrace God’s help. He says, “This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm, ‘God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.’ Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.”

God is your help. Ask him for his help and he’ll be there.

That’s a promise!

Take confidence: God is with you, helping you, guiding you—always.

IN THE QUIET OF THE DAY

Lord, thank you for helping me and watching over the details of my life. I love you. Amen.