Hitherto Hath the Lord Helped Us – Paul M. Williams

1 Samuel 7:1-13 As Christians, we ought never to lose the living testimony of a Living God in our midst!  The increasingly secular world in which we live declares that God is dead and as such, derides anyone who would dare to come out in the public square and declare that Jesus is real and living! The great danger in our day is that we can become so PC that we've nothing left of a Christian testimony whereby God can be glorified!  We must resist this temptation to "fit-in".  Has not the Lord been good to us?  Has He not by His mighty arm delivered us again and again out of many dangers?  When we had no one else to turn to, was not the Lord our rock?  As we dig into 1 Samuel 7, we see that while Israel walked with the Lord, they had a testimony of His mighty deliverance; but when they turned their hearts from Him to serve idols, then was this testimony lost.  This is a call to return unto the Lord with wholeness of heart that we might see again in our midst, a living testimony of a Living God.