“It is precisely where human hopes sink the lowest that trust in God rises to the highest. For where all human help gives way, there it makes way for divine help.”’ (St Ignatius of Loyola).
Undoubtedly, many of us have experienced this and have gratefully received help from the hands of our Father. This experience should then be deeply and permanently engraved in our souls so that we remember it again and again.
We human beings often tend to expect too much from others, or even from ourselves, and we seek our security in this. But this is often illusory, for even where there is good will, there is still human weakness.
God loves it when we experience that He is the giver of every good gift (Jas 1:17), when we praise Him for it and become aware that without Him we can do nothing, as Jesus Himself makes us understand (Jn 15:5). It is then that we wake up to reality, which helps us to understand things properly and to put everything in its right place.
In everything we must first trust in God and then accept the help of others, knowing that everything comes from His hands. It is precisely when everything seems hopeless and without solution, that our Father convinces us of His helping presence. Then we should remember it, because it is not just a one-time act of God in a particularly desperate situation. Our Father will use it as an invitation for us to always put all our trust in Him and thus enter into that relationship which will enable Him to guide us more smoothly and fruitfully through this life.