“Oh God, help me!”

Midweek Study with Pastor Edith
September 21, 2023
Psalm 130:1-5

Have you ever been waiting on a phone call that you wish you didn’t have to answer, but you knew you needed to prepare for it? Someone reading this may have memories of waiting to hear about a test result, or perhaps an attorney responding to situation in which you are involved, or, (you fill in the blank).

I received a phone call about a week ago from our daughter, asking if I could be prepared to pick up our grandkids from school for a couple of days as she was needed out of town to support a very dear friend who had to make a decision to place her husband in a Hospice care facility. I was very happy to help and very thankful that I have a schedule that allows for quick changes, and yet at the same time, I felt helpless to comfort and encourage her as she didn’t know how many days she would have to be away from her young family. I wanted so much to have something to say or give to her young friend who was losing her husband, and her precious kids who were losing their daddy.

It’s times like these that I am brought to my knees and cry out to the God who knows everything about me and still loves me with an undying love. How often have you been suddenly thrust into a moment when all you could do was cry out; “Oh God, help me!”

The Psalmist cries out; “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness; therefore, you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits and in his word I put my hope”. In my mind, and can hear someone singing ; “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness, I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name…”.

Amen!