Heralds Digest

  “ Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me to Edom? Is it not You, O God, who cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies? Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless .” Psalms 108 : 10 - 12 NKJV The difference between human assistance and the help from God is apparently the remoteness of the help from a far away heaven. Oftentimes, God is blamed for walking against the human plans towards breakthrough and success. Whereas, we mostly have little or no idea of the definition and destination of the strong city. Even in a single family unit, and because of the import of human depravity on conflict of interest, the different parties’ helpline is sometimes treated with skepticism and suspicion. Whereas, God’s help is holy because there is no conflict of interest with divine assistance. The ultimate definition of God’s holy help is clear, and the destination of its strong city is straightforward. While man’s hidden agenda in the nego...

  “ That Your beloved may be delivered, Save with Your right hand, and hear me. Through God we will do valiantly, For it is He who shall tread down our enemies .” Psalms‬ ‭108‬:‭6‬, ‭13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ When the psalmist prayed to God to “ Save with Your right hand, and hear me ”, it doesn’t suggest the existence of God’s possible choice of salvation with His wrong or left hand. It does speaks of the psalmist’s determination to absolutely depend on God’s salvation; and his refusal to adopt the alternative suggestions of human assistance. In fact, he later submitted the basis of his conviction in his prayer point with “ Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless ” (Psalms‬ ‭108‬:‭12‬). Truly, true help, even while it mostly comes through man, is always from God. Otherwise, it becomes a deceitful dragnet into the den of lions. The psalmist had several offers of these deceitful dragnets from king Saul and many of his associates while in the wilderness. But then, he was so convi...