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Hoping For Help

Tuesday June 1, 2021
 

All of us rely on ourselves to some degree to do those things that are important for life and happiness. That is why we are reluctant to seek help when we are troubled by an event that has caused us pain. We tend to look to our own solutions and allow the pain to increase.  When we came into recovery it took a giant step for us to admit that we were powerless over our dependency and that our life had become unmanageable. When we feel powerless we are hopeful that we will find someone who is powerful enough to help us.

We put our hope in the Lord. He is our help and our shield. Let your unfailing love surround us, Lord, for our hope is in you alone.  (Psalm 33:20, 22 NLT) 

In our time of need someone may be willing to help us by giving us a bed for the night, or a meal, or valuable counsel, but who, other than God, can give us hope for a new life? We can work on doing a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves but when it is exposed, what hope do we have that the garbage we have uncovered can be removed? We can tell another person about the garbage but what hope do we have that they can do anything about it? A surgeon may be skillful at healing a broken leg but who can heal a broken spirit?

Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God! (Psalm 43:5 NLT)

God wants us to have hope in His ability to restore our fractured spirit.  He demonstrated His great love for us by sending Jesus into the world to take our sin and brokenness upon Himself.  When our sin is exposed and repented of, we do not keep it. We give it to Jesus who was sentenced to death for its penalty and, in exchange, receive the gift of new life.

For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT)

Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank You that through Jesus my sins are no longer counted against me. I am grateful that I have cause to hope in Your unfailing promise of a new life.  Amen

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