The help advertisement

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In parts of our lives, we do put out help wanted ads looking for assistance with the dirty work that comes from our messy hearts.

The advert from our heart may sounds like this

Wanted

Someone to bring hope,

encouragement, and love to a fallen human being.

Hours varies,

with no guarantee of compensation

The content differ from each of us.

Some may need help with depression, while some might need assistance recovering from a broken relationship.

Perhaps someone else needs the support in getting freedom through an addiction.

Whatever it may be, we all long for someone to answer to the "help calls" written by our hearts.

Sometimes someone seems to apply.

A romantic partner comes into our lives, and we believe all of our troubles will go away.

Or

a new job promises a new beginning to our hope for future.

Another glass of whiskey that chases away the sorrows for a while.

But in the end, we realized that whatever we thought would give us help has actually contributed to the hurt.

Fortunately, there is someone who does promise to answer the help wanted adverts we post from our heart. 

One, who sees our need and responds.

When I was in the adolescences years of brokenness just 3 years back,

I was longing for a touch, some comfort and a place where I can rest my soul.

Pride held me away from people I newly know,

my newly adopted spiritual family.

Its hard for me to open up to tell them what had happened to me.

The only person I could speak to was God at that time.

I poured out my heart to Him, 

I told Him please please show me you love me.

Certainly I was helped,

the coming 2 weeks,

amazingly I received more than 10 hugs each day from people I know and people I do not know.

They just wanted to hug me, encourage me.

each time they hugged me as early as 9am in the morning will fill my eyes with tears.

I started to encounter God's love and helped of encouragements in a tangible way.

None of these people who hugged me know what I was going through,

weird enough they hugged and wept with me.

People who hugged me ranges from students waiting for A levels results to granny kind of age. 

I was truly comforted and I know God hears my prayers.

Jesus hugged me with the arms of many many others who has no idea of my cry to God.

I was helped at the very point.

Jesus is still providing such help daily when you ask for Him at your most desperate point.

He helped me, and he will help you too no matter who you are.