{"id":7412,"date":"2020-07-12T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T21:50:38","slug":"where-does-my-help-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=7412","title":{"rendered":"Where Does My Help Come From"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190705_112556-e1567803247601-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6233\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190705_112556-e1567803247601.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?attachment_id=6233\" class=\"wp-image-6233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190705_112556-e1567803247601-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190705_112556-e1567803247601-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prodigal:  I sure don&#8217;t know what is over that hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me:  I ain&#8217;t sure either, but we can wait together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When was the last time you needed help?&nbsp; Who helped you?&nbsp; Did you get help?&nbsp; Are you still waiting for help?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a leader once.&nbsp; One who asked these questions and then answered them.&nbsp; They are found in Psalm 121&nbsp;and were written by David.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lift up my eyes to the mountains\u2014&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; where does my help come from?&nbsp;<br>2 My help comes from the&nbsp;Lord,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the Maker of heaven and earth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have lifted my eyes to the sky, mountains, beach, bank account, email, text message, voice mail,&nbsp;and finally to the face of a loved one.&nbsp; Asking where will my help come from?&nbsp; Those answers took longer to figure out,&nbsp;then it is to read these two versus in Psalm 121.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have learned that my help comes from the Lord, but when it comes to my life, I often need to be reminded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need help. We only have two choices I believe at times.&nbsp; God says look to me,&nbsp;or look to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..fill in the blank.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have done both.&nbsp; I keep thinking at times I have to have help that makes sense, that is logical that I can prepare for.&nbsp; God\u2019s&nbsp;help sometimes&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;be prepared for,&nbsp;is not logical,&nbsp;and does not make sense.&nbsp; If we continue to focus on help&nbsp;looking our way, we then take over and miss God\u2019s way.&nbsp; We take&nbsp;control,&nbsp;we turn&nbsp;to emails, phones, money, people, position.&nbsp;&nbsp;We start&nbsp;pushing God along. God takes his hands off and states ok, not my plan,&nbsp;so go for it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is only after&nbsp;we&nbsp;fail,&nbsp;we remember God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does God have to cower to any problem?&nbsp;&nbsp;Is there any&nbsp;financial&nbsp;problem&nbsp;too&nbsp;big for God?&nbsp;&nbsp;Is there any health problem&nbsp;too&nbsp;big for God?&nbsp;&nbsp;Are there any&nbsp;people in your life that God cannot handle?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Some Jews were once upset with the Romans,&nbsp;and thought Jesus would solve the problem by dealing with the Romans.&nbsp; He would take over government.&nbsp; Made&nbsp;sense,&nbsp;right?&nbsp; That was a plan that could be developed right?&nbsp; It&nbsp;had logic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well Jesus, gave himself up to people who had no power over him.&nbsp; He loved them, he allowed himself to suffer, and be made fun of.&nbsp; He then died.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait a second what kind of plan was that?&nbsp; That makes no sense, that is not a good plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No but that plan&nbsp;involved&nbsp;God.&nbsp; Our help we focus on is about this day,&nbsp;or this year only.&nbsp; God has eternity in mind, when&nbsp;He&nbsp;offers help.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jews plan would maybe have helped a generation that lived 2000 years ago in their daily lives.&nbsp; God\u2019s plan&nbsp;is offered to all people in all generations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right&nbsp;now,&nbsp;you want to trust God so that&nbsp;He can help you?&nbsp; Remember this is not just about right now, this is about more.&nbsp; He sees the years and decades ahead.&nbsp; That is what&nbsp;His&nbsp;help is about.&nbsp;&nbsp;Looking to the&nbsp;mountains&nbsp;and saying God help me, means I can\u2019t see the whole plan.&nbsp; I can\u2019t make sense of this.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That does not mean we have to remain confused and in fear. We can&nbsp;trust the Lord who came up with a plan for salvation that involved&nbsp;us.&nbsp;&nbsp;We&nbsp;can trust the Lord who&nbsp;didn\u2019t just care about people he saw,&nbsp;lived with,&nbsp;and ate with. He cares for all&nbsp;people&nbsp;of all nations and tongues.&nbsp; He cares&nbsp;for all lives in&nbsp;all&nbsp;generations.&nbsp; He cares for&nbsp;us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now,&nbsp;we are&nbsp;looking at that&nbsp;mountain&nbsp;waiting to see what God\u2019s help will look like.&nbsp;&nbsp;We&nbsp;don\u2019t know the plan, but&nbsp;we&nbsp;know the heart of Jesus and that is what&nbsp;we&nbsp;hold on too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romans 5:15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the free gift is not like the trespass.  For if many died through one mans&#8217; trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal: I sure don&#8217;t know what is over that hill. Me: I ain&#8217;t sure either, but we can wait together. 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