Wings or crutches

Wings or crutches ? God is our refuge and strength, ever present help in trouble. Therefore we do not fear ... "(Psalm 46:1,2 a). The word is here, right now the conviction that there is help and hope. The verse does not delineate the issues, but only tells us that help and hope there are, if they become acute. The hope that a Christian must be treated, is one of the greatest blessings of God to man. And 'the Christian hope, which helps us with the pressures of life. ". .. Jesus Christ, our hope ... "(1 Timothy 1:1), a moment that this is not lost when we think it is." If there are difficulties, some people grow wings, others buy crutches "(Anonymous). A legend tells of the time in which God, the wings on the shoulders of the poor birds, and protested loudly to him: "We have to be burdened with this weight? "The Lord smiled and asked them to wait a week. The next day a strange thing happened. A force of some kind of lifted into the sky and the birds were flying and swimming, and enjoys a feeling that has never had before. When a week passed again before the Lord and humbly accepted the wisdom of the Father. "The wings, which are very ridiculous, because there are now unnecessary to maintain. They allow us to climb the highest height! "We can, at the end of our rope, and that is exactly where God and that attracts a lot of rope? And we to him. It is said that Luther and his friends were discouraged, Luther would say cheerily: "Come, let us sing the forty-sixth Psalm." Luther had a particular affinity for this psalm, and with good reason. As he said: "Here I am, I can not do otherwise," He knew that his resources were immediate and unrestricted, he need not fear the people on earth. "A mighty fortress is our God!" We grow wings protrude beyond and above the Earth to the suffering and illness of the psyche and body.