HE IS AT THE HELM

September 28

HE IS AT THE HELM

Psalms 3:8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

After trying to convince her that worry doesn’t pay, a woman jokingly exclaimed, “Oh yes, worry does pay; the things I worry about usually don’t happen.”

This is the conclusion of the whole matter (Ecclesiastes 1;13), the end of all cares: the knowledge and the assurance that when all is said and done, our Lord is in full control of our lives. “His hand is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.”

Many things happen to us that don’t appear to be within the Lord’s control. It is easy to feel that life is composed of random events coming at us without rhyme nor reason. Looking at the things that happen, one could easily conclude that we are a ship left adrift given to our own care; that no one is at the helm. But the analysis of a life dedicated to faith and prayer easily proves to the contrary. It proves that whatever the Lord allows to happen to us is within His perfect control; that we can always call upon Him with the total assurance of the promise that He . . . . is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.1Corinthians 10:13.

Oh, think of how excited we get when a child in dire need of our help cries out with desperate expectancy and faith that we will rescue him! Even so, the Lord is excited when, in the midst of an inevitable ‘crash’ we let go of the stirring wheel, close our eyes, lift up our hands and scream, “Jesus, take the wheel”. He is elated when in the midst of seeming impossibility we hold Him to His Word and in a voice of excited anticipation, we proclaim with King David, Salvation is of the Lord.

Psalms 19:5 He, . . .  is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

Mat 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.