Help! I need someone

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With Your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. (Psalm 18:29)

I have been thinking about peace a lot lately. Just saw a woman have a panic attack in a restaurant yesterday. We all cry out to God to step in and do something. Give me Your peace, Lord, just give it to me. But I’m thinking God is about hand-in-hand relationships. He doesn’t always want to wave a magic wand and make things miraculously all better. He wants us to join Him and together make things better. Isn’t that how we get to know someone better, have strong ties with them and build a lasting relationship with them? God wants to be known.

What if God is telling us what we need to do to achieve greater peace and we’re choosing not to do it? If finances are causing you stress, is God telling you to prayerfully create a manageable budget and with His help stick to it? The same with relationships. Is God leading you to forgive and repair and just reconnect on a more regular basis? Is He calling You to set the example of how co-workers can get along? Can you somehow have peace about your health and your body without following God’s plan of good choices in diet and exercise? If there is stress in your life, is there prayer and forethought and planning or are you just reacting and impulsive? Thinking the consequences will be minor and can be dealt with later, only to realize too late that you made a bunch of little impulsive choices and they have snowballed into a catastrophic, overwhelming, unmanageable level. If you truly budget your calories, your money, your time … and stick with it … will that lead to less stress? Will that lead to … peace?

Slow down for a minute. Consider what is upsetting you so much. With the HELP of God, what can the two of you do together to gain the peace you seek?

The word “help” means - make it easier for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources. Not do it for you, or in place of you. But together.

Begin that walk in peace with God today. Think through your choices today. Make them choices, and not emotional impulses. With the help of God … you can - move towards peace; peace with God.