Filled: A Devotional to Fill Your Life With an Abundance of Hope, Peace, Joy & LoveSýnishorn

Day 7: God is Ready to Help

I am so thankful that the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. There are so many things in this world that are uncertain. Jesus is not one of them. Let’s just camp out on that for a moment and praise God that He is unchanging.

We can remember that there is such a thing as fear, but we don’t have to let it eat us. And we can remember that there is such a thing as joy and we can celebrate that.

My husband and I were walking on the beach near our house a couple of days ago, and you have to cross a bridge to get there. This bridge is metal. It has spaces so you can see the ground underneath, There was a woman there with her dog. It kind of looked like an Irish setter. Beautiful blue eyes. But these blue eyes were filled with fear. This dog was not going to cross the bridge. It was having none of it. So this woman picks up the dog. This dog was the size of like a six or seven year old child and puts the dog on her shoulders. He’s just hanging there and his paws are just dangling. His paws were just dangling over her shoulders and he was hanging on to her for dear life. And isn’t that you and I as we cling to Jesus?

Maybe you aren’t there yet. Maybe you haven’t found that trust yet with Jesus. Voice that to Him today. He wants you to know He is ready to help.

We can truly know who our protector is. We know who our guardian is. We know who to go to. We know who to hold onto. He is a steady rock. God guards you from every evil. He guards your very life. He guards you when you leave and when you return.

If you’re like me, you tend to cling other things or people when you really should be clinging to Jesus. My prayer for you today is that you would cling to the one you made you, the one who made the heavens and the one you can always be trusted to keep you safe.

PRAYER: Lord, I cling to you today. You are our protector. You never sleep. You never leave us. You are always watching, always nearby. Lord, thank you for being our help in troubled times.

REFLECTION: Consider if you are clinging to Jesus as your help or something or someone in your life instead?