Getting Help

All of us at one time or another need help. Recently climbers on Mount Hood in Oregon became trapped and one of them called on a cell phone for help. Unfortunately for them the weather kept searchers, and rescue, away for days. You may be in some sort of need, not as serious as being trapped on a mountain in winter, but perhaps your need is your health, or a family member who is sick. How do you get help?

Maybe your need is financial. You've lost your job and the bills are piling up. Maybe your need is emotional as relationships have broken and you don't know how to fix them. Perhaps your need is more spiritual. You feel rotten about yourself and your life and you just want to end all the pain once and for all.

The word for you today is good, my friend. Help is closer than a cell phone call and I guarantee that this Helper cannot be foiled by high winds and snow. There is no condition He cannot heal, no bind He cannot undo and no relationship He cannot heal.

But there is something you must do. You must make the call. You must make the effort. You must reach out and you'll find that this help is closer than you might have imagined.

Hebrews 4:1 "Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."

Help is as close as your next breath, if with that breath you proclaim that you are falling on God's grace - receiving a gift of new life that you do not deserve. Normally when you drew near to a king's throne you could find yourself killed. Kings were not known for grace and mercy. But the King of Kings is.

Normally when you approach a monarch they are demanding something of you. But the head of all monarchs offers to help you instead. Don't stay away. Don't crawl into a snow cave in your life and shut out everything hoping that it'll all go away. No - come boldly before God's throne of mercy and grace to find help when you need it most.

Pastor Tom