"Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless. Through God we will do valiantly, for it is He who shall tread down our enemies."
In the most important and significant areas of life, the help of man is of no use whatsoever. This is a lesson that usually has to be learned the hard way. But once we recognize this fact: that really, no human being (outside of Jesus Christ Himself) is going to be able to help us, we are well on our way to the adventure of faith and deliverance.
Now, with Christ as our help, we do far more than we would have ever thought, or imagined. Now, we are "valiant," and we partake of God's victories in and through us.
[Puritan quote of the day: "If God is infinitely happy now, then everything is now as God would have it to be now; if everything, then [even] those things that are contrary to His commands." --Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon entitled, "The Nature of God"]
