Hitherto Hath the Lord Helped Us

Years ago, when I first came here and was kind of down and out with many troubles and couldn’t focus above them, the practitioner here would quote to me from I Samuel 7:12. It was when Samuel had won a victory and he named the place where the victory was, “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” The practitioner told me, that instead of being so focused on all my troubles, pains, and what was wrong in my life, I should recount all the many victories that I have had with God. Victories of healing.

We can all recount things if we think about it. Healings we have had, perhaps what would seem like a chance encounter that led to a wonderful job, or how you met your spouse, or various things where you have definitely felt God’s presence and power. Every time you think of those things say, “‘Hitherto hath the Lord helped me.’ and henceforth too He will.” When we remember all that God has done, that fortifies us to know all that God will do. If He was there for us once, He will be there for us again and again and again! That is the kind of loving Father we have!

In the poetry book called, Triumph and Other Poems, by Max Dunaway, this is a poem that he wrote:

God’s Care by Max Dunaway

(I Samuel 7:12)

“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us,”
and henceforth too He will.
He who ordains the way for us,
His purpose will fulfill.
And who will keep us from the good
He has in love prepared,
Or overrule the harmony
that should by men be shared?
Therefore will not we doubt the care
that guards our pathway still.
“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us,”
and henceforth too He will.