I am helped… (Psalm 28) 270208
Yesterday early morning, there was a great down pour. The weather had been quite dry for the past two weeks, and the rain which came after midnight was really a cool and refreshing one. It was so refreshing that I felt so relaxing. I wished I could sleep more, or simply rest on my bed. It cleared up the sky and cleaned up the air, and of course my bike was washed thoroughly!
This morning, as I read Psalm 28, I was reminded that God has ears, and He is not deaf, though I may sometimes perceive that God is deaf (v1). God hears every single cry of my heart (v2), He listens attentively to my deepest struggles and needs, and He is interested in me as a person!
Yesterday afternoon, I have tea with a young adult friend. We have a good time sharing and encouraging one another. I was thankful for the encouragement that he and his family gave to me for the past few years. They had never failed to give me a Christmas gift every year, and from the gifts, I know that they had put in thoughts and I am very touched by them. To be honest, I don’t think I deserve those gifts. I have only taught one of the youths for a year when I was the youth worker of the church. But I am thankful that God has used this family to remind me that my ministry was being appreciated and pleasing onto God. Thank You God for this wonderful reminder.
As I am reminded that God hears me, I can trust in Him and be helped (v7). God’s help is not an idea. I am really being struck by the way the Psalmist phrased it: I am helped! It is not a past event, God’s help is not sometime of the past or just a fond memory, but a reality. It is not a futuristic event whereby the help will be coming, but it is a present and now event: I am helped. I am not too sure what is the exact tense in the original Hebrews of this verb ‘help’. But I trust the English translation that this idea that God is a present help is what the Psalmist wanted to tell me.
I am helped. I need help and I am helped. I need encouragement and I am encouraged. I need reminder of God’s goodness and I am reminded. I need the cry of my heart to be heard and I am heard.
I am so blessed that I can be reminded of this assurance that I am help. I am reminded that I do not need to be a helper all the times and I need to learn to be help by others and most importantly, to receive help from God. I need help and I am helped. This is not for the weak, this a truth for me and everyone. I recognize my weakness and limitation as human, I recognize my need of God, and I recognize my desire for God to be my help. I need help is almost equivalence to say I need God. I need the grace of God, I need the power and strength of God, and I need the presence of God. God is my only help I need, and I am helped.
Are you helped? Who is your helped?
HHS…
Abel…
