My Help Comes From _______

“My Help Comes From ________”

By Zach Wood

Psalm 121:1-2 NIV

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

We all long to receive wisdom through our lives.  As we grow up through childhood, our parents and other family members help to teach us things we need to learn.  We also receive instructions and learning from teachers at school.  As we continue to grow through our lives, we learn valuable lessons from various people that we come into contact with.

Some people we meet give us bad advice, while others give us great advice.  We are always searching for insight and direction in life.  It is wonderful to gain insight and wisdom from people who care enough to love on us and share with us valuable life experiences to help us avoid the same pain and mistakes. 

We not only look to people for wisdom and insight, but often we end up looking to worldly things for insight and direction.  We often turn to many things for help, other than God, when times get tough.  We turn so often to temporary happiness through worldly promises that end up becoming an epic fail.  This often brings pain, and sometimes tragedy, into our lives.  We are desperate to grab onto something that brings temporary help.  So often these things just provide a band-aid solution to our problems and don’t give us the long-term help we need.

I am so guilty of turning to earthly sources of wisdom instead of turning to what God tells me and how He wants to directs me.  We need to be honest and examine our lives and fill in this blank, “My help comes from __________.”  Where does our help come from?  What are we putting our hope in?  Where are we turning to?  Who are we going to?  What are we going to?  What do we rely on most?  What instant satisfaction do we turn to when stressful times come?

The answers may make us cringe.  Is God really our true source of help in all times of need?  We often answer “Yes” right away, but if we’re completely honest, He is often not Who we go to first.  We have so many opportunities and temptations at our disposal to turn to when we need help.  However, the only true and wisest source we can go to is God.  We shouldn’t rely on our own ideas and what we know.  We must turn to Almighty God.  Most of us are fortunate to have good and trusting family and friends who will share Godly insight and advice to us suggesting that we pray and ask God for complete wisdom. 

Who or what is your true source of help?  Every day, I am praying that God will be my only source of help.  I want to listen and be attentive to Him and not turn to the worldly ways of temporary help. 

Wisdom and advice from others is beneficial, but our main source needs to always be God.