Where do you turn in times of trouble? Who can you count on to help you out? Do you count on family members? Can you count on your friends to be there for you? Have you sought out God? Have you called on him to hear you? Do you trust he will answer?
When trouble comes our way, and it will, we all need someone we can count on. We will need physical help, emotional help, or spiritual help. We may need all three at the same time. We may need financial help as well. Counseling is available for three of the four.
Physical help seems to be the easiest to get. We simply need some able bodies to help with moving or fixing a vehicle or adding on a room to the house. Emotional help becomes a little trickier. There are only a few people we trust with our emotional problems. Financial help can also be dicey. Maybe our family or friends can help, maybe we need to go to a financial institution to borrow the money we need.
Spiritual help is the trickiest of them all. It is also the most important of them all. It is the only one that will have an everlasting effect. We need someone we can trust who will be truthful and compassionate, knowledgeable and tactful, objective and caring. Most of us will turn to our pastor for spiritual counseling. After all, they are to keep conversations confidential. But what if we don’t have a pastor or perhaps do not fully trust him or her?
We can always call out to God. Because we know troubles will come, we should build our relationship with God beforehand. That will help us hear him when he provides an answer. It will help us see the situation as he sees it and see how he would have us address it. God will answer. The better our relationship with him, the quicker and easier we will see or hear his answer.
I pray we all build our relationship with God. I pray we turn to him in our times of trouble. I pray each one of us will look and listen for the answers God will provide us. Build your relationship with God. Seek him in all situations. Learn to hear his voice. Be attentive to his answers. Trust God.
Psalm 17:6
I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me, hear my words.
Marty Pressey 