God’s Help
( Job Mocked by his Wife by Georges de La Tour - found here ) “Mary Ward, that great Christian educator of the 17th century, used to tell her sisters: ‘Do your best and God will help’. The notion that God can and will help us in our predicaments is axiomatic to Biblical faith. It sets the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God made compassionate flesh in Christ Jesus, apart from the Unmoved Mover of philosophy. Psalm 90 begins with the verse: ‘He who dwells within the help of the Most High’. God’s help, says Bernard, may indeed be called a habitat in as much as it forms a sustaining reality within which we can live, move, and have our being. God’s help is not occasional to us; it is not an emergency service we call out now and then, when a house is burning or someone has been hit by a car, the way we might dial 999. But what about occasions when God-fearing people cry out to heaven but get no perceptible response, hearing only the desolate echo of their own voice? The Scriptural t...
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