I will help thee, saith the Lord. — Isaiah 41:14
When we pray, we often expect God to grant our requests in just the way we ask. But in that moment one realizes that while we were praying and asking God to give us a new start, to give us what we thought we needed, God was doing just that but in a different way than we had imagined. And then we think and assume we are at a dead end.
The problem is we don't know the mind of God! We don't know when the way we want our prayers to be answered is not in God's plan. We pray in the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done." Unfortunately, we don't like it when our will and God's will aren't the same. Many years ago, in a theology class, the teacher joked that we believe that God made us in his image, and we have been trying to return the favor ever since.
This morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: “I will help thee.” “It is but a small thing for me, thy God, to help thee. Consider what I have done already. Before the world began I chose you. Throughout your life I have been beside you.
With me there is no dead end.
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