PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE!!

"God is our refuge and strength, a VERY PRESENT help in trouble". Psalms 46:1. As I was praying after hearing the news about Tornado warning in Oklahoma yesterday, this verse came to my mind. Just like Tornado, the storms of lives arrive with unnerving regularity. Often they strike without warning and linger without welcome, testing the limits of our faith and endurance. But God has given us a place of safety in the midst of our circumstances. If you are in the midst of a storm, you should remember the day HE silenced one. If you are in a terrible sickness, you should remember HIS compassion towards a leper and the woman with issue of blood. If you have concern about a child, you should remember the day HE held and blessed one. Three years ago a small bird accidentally flew into our closed patio through an open door. Attempting to find a way out , it bumped into many closed glass windows. Once when it stopped to rest, I tried to help it escape, but the frightened bird resisted. Again and again it flew at windows, insisting upon finding its own solution to the problem. Finally it became so exhausted that it gave up the struggle. Only then would it allow me to pick it up and set it free. My friend, when we find ourselves in perplexing situations how often we, like the bird, try to find our own solutions to our problems. We make one attempt after another until finally we give up and let God shows us the way out. How much better it is when we allow the Lord to help us with our problem when they first arise rather than after we have wasted so much time and effort. King Solomon wrote "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths". Proverbs: 3:5-6. My friend, I am talking to you, do you understand?