The Helping Wings of God

UV 1511/10000 The Helping Wings of God
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

Psalm 63 v 7

The Lord is our help. He is our Ebenezer. He helps us by giving us the spiritual wings of prayer and the Word. With these wings we can fly over every circumstance in life, solve every problem, endure every trial and suffering, overcome every temptation, face every deficiency or shortage, satisfy every need. These two wings of the Lord will instantly and continually bring us into His presence. The shadow of the Lord is His presence. We believe and become aware of His closeness and His availability to us. The presence of the Lord is gracious. It is mighty to save. His presence enables, equips and empowers us even as His presence distinguished Moses and the Israelites from the rest of humanity.

When we pray, read and meditate on the Word, the power of the Word is released in our lives. His Spirit is ushered into our midst and we are ushered into His presence. The Lord inclines His ears to hear our thoughts. The Lord has the unique capacity to hear and decipher our thoughts and feelings all the time. In this uni-verse, the Psalmist declares that as the Lord has been faithful in helping him in the past and he remembers those testimonies, He can rejoice in praying and studying the Word of God. Our past experiences of grace build our faith for the present and future. Someone rightly said that when we run alone in life or on our own strength, it is called race. When we run with God’s help, it is called grace. In this g-race, sometimes we are still, sometimes we crawl, sometimes we bend on knees, sometimes we fall flat on our faces, sometimes we stand and lift both our hands, sometimes we run, sometimes we walk, sometimes we fly, sometimes we rest but at all times we win. Just as wings have many types of feathers with different functions, both prayer and the Word have different types and functions but all work together to lift us up from the present into His presence, from problems to solutions, from shame to honour, from defeat to victory, from weakness to strength, from sadness to joy.

The reason I have set a target of 10,000 uni-verses to meditate on over the coming 25-30 years is that there are 10,000 promises of the Lord in His Word. Each of these uni-verses will teach us how to secure the help of the Lord in our lives in different situations. When we rejoice in His presence and exult in Him through praise and worship, take shelter in the specific, the Lord will be our help at our right hand, implying that His help is always proximate. It is vain to seek the help of man and there are so many situations in our lives in which only the Lord can share our burden and come to our help. Sometimes, He gives us help by a word of counsel on what we ought to do. Sometimes, He causes a groundswell of new thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, He sends us help through people. Sometimes, He sends angels to our help. At all times, we can rely on Him to encourage, assist and aid us. The words in the uni-verse, “ I will rejoice” means that to be joyful is a decision regardless of our situation or circumstance. We decide to be joyful as the Lord is with us and He will help us.


Prateep V Philip