Useless Help

Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is useless. Psalm 60:11

We don't want to be known as useless. Okay, maybe when that family wants to move all of their heavy furniture (and six wagon loads of stuff) from the 2nd floor apartment across town to that house with the steep driveway and narrow steps, we might accept the title for a day or two then. Sounds like a job for professional movers to me! Most of the time though, we would rather not be known as the useless one; the one with no skills or knowledge that can help anyone. However, there are many situations in this world where the help of man is indeed useless.

Salvation would be the A-number one problem along those lines. No help from man is going to solve that one! As the scholars of the word like to remind us: if it were so, then the life of our Lord Jesus would not have been required at the cross. No religion, no ritual, no help from man can save one of us, for that is the Lord's work and His alone. There are further problems in which man cannot help too.

Separation from a loved one perhaps? Our brothers and sisters in Christ gather quickly together to offer comfort and support, but the only thing that helps is the promise from our Lord Jesus that there will be a reunion for all those who believe in Him. We appreciate the efforts of our Christian siblings, but bottom line as these separations strike their sudden and painful blows is that promise that it is not forever. Now when those brothers and sisters align themselves with God's great promise and repeat it to us. Yes, surely then they too are useful help in this.

In Christ alone,
Bucky