Finding Hope: Abundant Help

I’ve lost both my mom and dad. They’re in eternity now with Jesus. Mom’s the most recent, just a couple of years ago. And one of the things that I felt led to do when she passed away, both mom and dad were believers, loved the Lord, was to take her Bible and to just thumb through it to see the places that she had written notes in there.

Now, my mom was a worrier. She could worry with the best of them. There was always something that mom was troubled about. I’m really kind of glad that she went home to be with Jesus before the pandemic of this last year and a half, because it would’ve caused her worry in great, great measure. When I read through her Bible and I got to the Psalms I stopped and was drawn to the 46th Psalm. For in the margin of the 46th Psalm she wrote these words.

“A Psalm for tight places. Help abundantly available in tight places.” The Psalm begins this way, “God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way.” What a great thought. As we think about the tight places of our world over this last year and a half and the pandemic that we’ve wrestled with. And also the political divide that we have.

We don’t seem to be able to get along with one another at all. And they become tight and difficult places in our lives. What I love about the 46th Psalm is that God promises abundant help in those tight places. I wrestle with claustrophobia. You put me in a tight, confining place my heart will race. I’ll break out in a sweat even though it’s not warm in the room. I don’t like the confinement of that. Isn’t that true in our own lives? We don’t like the confinement that the world sometimes places us in? Why is it that we turn everywhere else but God sometimes for that help? For He promises to be that help to us in those tight places.

The 46th Psalm is not a long Psalm, but it ends this way: the Psalmist says, “Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress. Be still and know that He is God. Be still and know that He is in control. Be still and know that He is there to provide abundant help in tight places.”

Today, as you go about your day whether it’s at work, whether it’s at home, whether it’s in the car, can you take some time to simply be still? Be still before the One who promises to be the abundant help that we long for and we look for.

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