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Psalm chapter 120 verse one.

In my distress I called to the Lord and he answered me. This is such a simple powerful

reality expressed in one verse that when we are in distress, when we walk through trial, when we need

help, which let's just put it out there. We all need help all the time. Like all the time we need help.

The reality is God has made us dependent creatures.

God has made us people who need help.

This isn't just a result of sin in the world,

a result of the fall of man and woman. This is the way we were created from the very beginning.

Before sin ever entered the world, we were created with a need for God and a need for others.

This is what we see in Genesis 1 and 2, like we need help.

You and I need help to breathe today. We can't breathe on our own. God has to give us

that help. We need his provision in water and food. We need

his provision in community around us. It's not good for us to be alone. That was

before sin ever entered the world. So need help what that means is we always find ourselves in help

Period in life and then at particular times we find ourselves in what Psalm 120 describes as distress.

I think about a conversation I was just having with someone in distress that doesn't know what to do and is hurting and needs help.

For that person to know, for any one of us whenever we find ourselves for that

we can call to the Lord

and he will answer us.

Like I'm guessing all of us know what it's like to be in distress

and to call out for help and there not be somebody there to help us. Like maybe I think about

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