February 7

Those of us who profess faith in Christ must cry out as did the father in the throng that followed Jesus. The man explained that his son was tormented by seizures that caused him to fall to the ground and froth at the mouth. When the Lord asked if he had faith to see his son healed, he said, “Lord, I believe. Please help my unbelief.” (Mark 9: 24)

What we all yearn for, what this distressed father yearned for is the hope expressed in Psalm 29:11, “The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.” We know there is no one else to whom we may turn in our distress but Jesus, but our fear is that He, too, will disappoint us.

It is almost as though we are too afraid to proclaim His power in our circumstances right now—the best we can hope for is that ultimately He will have compassion upon us and deliver us from the trial that has beset us. What we don’t seem to grasp is that the promise in Psalm 29:11 is on-going!

The fact that it says He will give us strength, that He will bless us with peace does not negate the promise that He is always with us, that He will never fail or forsake us! (Hebrews 13:5) When the father asked Jesus to heal his son, the Lord did not tell him He would do so later—He touched and healed him NOW!