An Ever Present Help

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for September 17
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An Ever Present Help

The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth
them that trust in him. Nahum 1:7. 

We have rich promises in the Word of God, if we only believe and trust
in Him. We are in danger of trusting to our own poor human efforts, and
not putting our trust in God. Everyone who has any part to act in this
great preparation of the work of God for these last days should come
close to God. When God sends out His workers to do a special errand for
Him, He has pledged Himself to be one with them, if they will be one
with God. But if they draw apart from God, and try to do this work in
their own strength, they will find difficulties and discouragements at
every step. Here we have the promise that in working for the Lord He is
by our right hand to help us and work with us.

It would be the greatest folly in the world for any of us to take any of
the credit to ourselves for any success we may have. The more humbly we
walk with God, the more will He manifest Himself to us to help us. The
Lord never designed to send out His servants to do a work for Him with
all the opposition of Satan and evil angels against them unless He gives
them divine help. The reason that we do not have greater success in the
work is because we depend on our own efforts rather than upon the help
God will give us. It is our privilege to feel our weakness, our
unworthiness, and then claim the help that God has provided for us. We
can take the Word in our distress, and while we feel the burden of souls
upon us, and say, "Here, Lord, Thou hast promised, and I believe Thy
word."

We must learn to go to our heavenly Father just as a child goes to its
earthly parents. He says, "Or what man is there of you, whom if his son
ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give
him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give
good things to them that ask him?" (Matt. 7:9-11). . . . 

While every one of God's workmen should cultivate his powers to the best
of his ability, yet he should not trust in these powers. Make of
yourselves everything that it is possible for you to make and then trust
the rest to God.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, pp. 239, 240.