DECEMBER 5, Hebrews 2:17-18

Isn’t it true that help is the hardest to find when we most need it? Sometimes we find that no one is able to help because they do not truly understand what we are facing. Even if they are able to, their help will be limited. As much as we try, we cannot solve our own problems. The truth is that we are indeed helpless, and the people around us are helpless too. We are finite creatures and many things are beyond our control. But here is a great truth – we have a Saviour who is not helpless. Jesus Christ is your perfect help. You ask, “Why is Jesus my perfect help?”

Jesus is our perfect help because He identifies with us. We often have the impression that God is far away in heaven and does not really know what we are going through. That is not true! He did not take on the nature of powerful angels, but the form of a weak and frail man. Do you think that nobody ever understands or knows how you feel? That is where you are mistaken – Jesus knows your weaknesses; He is able to help you because He too has gone through great suffering, trials and temptations. Jesus is not far away in heaven and distant from your cares and struggles. He helps you as one who has been in the same shoes as you. Jesus identifies with your struggles against sin and the trials that you are going through. That means that He knows exactly how to help you in ways that you may not even know yourself !

As a man Jesus not only identifies with us, He helps us by His constant prayers and pleas for us before God the Father. Even though we often fall into sin and even doubt His presence in our lives, He never fails to be our merciful and faithful High Priest. Jesus constantly prays for you and me that our faith will not fail in times of trials and temptations.

Are you going through a time of great trial or struggle against the temptation to sin? Help is readily available if you just look to Jesus and seek His help. He is ever ready to hear your prayers and provide the help that you most need. Look to Jesus today!

Thought: Only Jesus can provide the perfect help that I most need.

Prayer: Father in Heaven, I confess that I am helpless to solve my own problems. Please help me in the difficult situations that I face, that I may learn to wait upon You for deliverance and to depend on You for help. Help me especially not to waver in my faith through these trying times. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.