A good mistake to make.

I opened my little pooter up and started things going - once it was up and running, I started three programs - web browser, mail, and Bible program, as I try to do each morning.

Then read the Proverbs passage for the day - 18th today, so number 18 - started reading, greatly blessed as it starts off praising the Lord for His greatness - then it occurred to me that it didn't 'sound' right for proverbs - and when I looked closer it was Psalm 18.
OOOOOOPPPPPSSSSSS

But as I continued reading I discovered that today it was a wonderful oops for me.

We need to be reminded that God is good and God is great (and he puts the food on my plate... Sorry couldn't resist that!).

And further, that God is the one who protects me, guides me, helps me, strengthens me.

I have had on occasion people tell me that God is a crutch, and that person doesn't need that sort of crutch.

Well I have news for people of that attitude - God is no mere crutch - He is a full life support system and I DO NEED HIM!

Anyway, what sort of crutch are those people using to help them through life?

Money, which can be taken away in any number of ways - theft, loose spending, crookedness, carelessness, or bad investment.
Drugs, which ruin your mind, and eventually your life, and while they may dull the senses so you don't feel your problems, they are still there. In fact worse because now you're broke from buying drugs.
Alcohol - which of course is just another drug - and which is no better than any other drug - and certainly doesn't make anyone's life better or easier - just the other day I heard some guys talking about $10 a pint for beer - I couldn't afford that even if I wanted to! So what do they go without for their booze?
Smokes - will kill you, don't actually calm you down (medically), ruin all sorts of parts of your life (you stink, your eyes, teeth, and skin all go yellow), and  it too will send you broke.

Yep, everyone in this world has and needs a crutch of some sort - I would far rather it be a crutch like a dependable, loving, almighty, all-knowing, eternal, unchanging Creator God, such as David describes in Psalm 18, than a worldly, temporary, damaging and condemning something that people deny is a crutch at all.

I DO depend on Him, and when I think I can do it all myself, that's when things start to go awry.

As David says:Psa 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

What a blessing that God is willing and loving enough to do this.

Skellibert