A woman shared since she declared bankruptcy, just trying to network with others to share her skills, contacting old friends provokes a hands up--people holding her at a distance.
“They have their own troubles,” one man shared.
Often that is the case when times are difficult. Although we can turn to people for some help we must ultimately turn to the Lord. Hence a timely saying by Eugene Peterson on the topic of Trouble.
TROUBLE
Trouble does it’s best work when it draws us to God. Discovering other people cannot or will not help us is not a disaster if at the same time, it shows God both can and will help.
That we are abandoned by others is not the last straw so much as the first step to the realization that God is our help and salvation
In the empty places in my life devastated by broken promises and vacated by faithless companions come, Holy Spirit, as companion and comforter.
I will use my times of trouble to receive the help that only you can give. Amen.
Eugene Peterson
Psalm 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 117:1,2
Praise the Lord, all you nations, extol him, all you peoples.
For great is His love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord
Matthew 28:20 Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age. Jesus

