There is help!

Today we hear breaking news headlines in many different ways. On radio, it is normally a special jingle with that all familiar tune that signals our brain to let us know something new is up, and on television it is that ‘interruption’ of our regular programming that automatically let’s ourselves know something has happened and we should pay attention. In the written press we all know what is the breaking news because news stands tell us right? After all, it is the front page story, it’s that picture or headline that causes us to say, “I need to purchase a paper”, and thus we have it, breaking news headlines in so many ways.
I could write that we have breaking news headlines in our conversations as well. It’s that look from a friend that says “hold on, I must tell you”, or it’s that flag down when we wave our arm until it appears we are going to swing it off. All these are ways that we communicate breaking news, or begin the process of sharing information.
With all that is happening around the world today, imagine breaking news today that all we have been looking for has been born in a little obscure town t hat anyone in their proper mind would want to by-pass…would you be interested? I’m thinking maybe if the coverage was reported in such a way that I had to watch or I thought about someone I knew that lived there, but unless it gets me immediately I’ve turned the page because so much other stuff is coming at me.
Here’s breaking news, there is help! Truth is even as I am writing this column I’m thinking to myself ‘help’ is not the best choice of words. After all, in this paper we have help wanted advertisements, sometimes on electric poles we see signs talking about help, and sometimes we even see folks standing on the side of the road at an intersection asking for help, so help probably is not the best word, but I’m not sure what other word to use. O.K., I’m going back to breaking news, there is help!
No, that’s so repetitive and I should be better then that but help seems to have lost its importance. Help doesn’t seem to have the same punch it had like in former days. I guess it really doesn’t mean much if someone says they will lend a helping hand, to only never show up or deliver huh? Plus everyone seems to be asking for help so it must be in short supply right?
It is amazing to me that we started this column off by speaking about help and the suggestion being made that help is available and now I am at the spot where I am writing a totally different column. It was to be a column that help is here and now it seems to be that help is gone and no one can find it, especially because we see such need all around and no one seems to be getting in touch with help.
Honesty in this column is that help does exist, even if we seem not to find it. Looking for help is more then putting a sign around your neck, or standing on a corner holding up a sign. Looking for help is more then putting out a notice letting others know, even if it is in an organized section like the help wanted ads.
Finding help is more then a one action search. If you want to hear from God you need to learn He speaks from His word, from prayer-communication with Him, and through other people. I want to write and say through out the life line ask for help and you will find it, but you need to make sure you are fishing in the right place. Make sure you are asking the source of supply and not another source looking for the same source.
There is help, His name is Jesus and you will know when you’ve found His help, because there will be a peace that over takes you like no other.
Until then