God Helplessly Listens to our cries

“Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.” The fear of being helpless terrifies us. For some, it consumes our mental state – thinking about it, worrying about it. It really can petrify us. We drown in fear, worry, helplessness – in the concern of being left alone with no support and no one around to assist us in our time of trouble and greatest need. It terrifies our state of being. It challenges our mental state and spiritual senses.  It overwhelms and overtakes our peace. We consider those daunting thoughts: What if I am left alone? What if no one shows? What if I call out and no one hears me? What if I ask for assistance and they ignore me, forget me, leave me alone, never respond? The fear of helplessness is a terrible thing and a great pain to experience- facing our finiteness and knowing we cannot do it on our own. We can experience that terrible and dreadful feeling of helplessness when we cannot control the outcome, change a person’s mind, protect our children from harm or danger or must work a dead-end job. We can feel helpless when a friend or family member loses a loved one or we experience the loss of a job, the loss of that long time, childhood friend or a pet. We can feel helpless when the weather does not cooperate with our plans, when we encounter corrupted people or experience selfish minds… when impatience devours our mind and anger eats up precious time, when the traffic light won’t change quickly enough, when other drivers do not get out of the way, when it seems the slowest people on earth will make you late again. We can even feel helpless when we just don’t want to or cannot seem to pray for assistance and ask God for strength and encouragement. It is a terrible thing to encounter and a dreadful thing to consider, needing help, asking for it and there is not a soul or helpful person to be found. You know that dreadful, helpless feeling but God will never let you down. God is always around helplessly listening for the cries of those who need His help.