"HELP ME, GOD!"

 

"HELP ME, GOD!"

 

God be merciful to me a sinner (Luke 18:13 KJV).

 

A story in a religious magazine dramatically illustrates God’s miracle power. It tells how a forty-year-old man, rough and wicked, came to know God. Profane, mean-spirited, this man loved to drink and fight. His pastor tried to convert him to no avail. "God means nothing to me," the man would say. He went from bad to worse, from liquor to drugs. Finally, he got so low he couldn't handle himself. The pastor repeated the advice he had given so many times before, "Your only hope is God."

 

Beaten and humbled, the man asked, "How do I contact God?"

 

"Just talk to Him. Ask for His help."

 

The man looked up and said, "Help me, God. I can't help myself."

 

That was all, a simple prayer. But it must have been in real faith because the man was able to testify: "You told me there is a God. Now I know there is because He heard what I said. He came right close to me. I felt warm inside, I began to cry. I'm so happy. He set me free from alcohol and drugs and all that rotten stuff."

 

How do you explain a miracle like that? Certainly it is not the work of religion. only the power of God, unleashed by faith, can transform a sinner into a child of God.

 

We can all pray that prayer: "Help me, God. I can't help myself."

 

Life response: I will seek to live a God-sufficient life rather than a self-sufficient one.