“I can’t help you. I have no troops” That was part of an encrypted six line message dated July 4,1863. It was part of a dispatch which offered no hope to doomed Lt. General John C. Pemberton, who was forced to surrender to Union Forces led by Ulysses S. Grant. It ended the siege of Vicksburg Mississippi, in what historians say was a turning point midway in the American Civil War. The situation which Pemberton found himself in reminds us of the fact that there are times in our lives when we reach the end of our resources and are hopeless. It is then that we must look beyond ourselves and to another source of deliverance. The psalmist spoke of such a situation when he wrote ot those who “reel to and from and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wit’s end.” But he added, “Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble and He brings them out of their distresses.” If you are at your wit’s end today, I urge you to cry out to the Lord. He will hear you and He will help you.”

Pastor Alex Rockwell

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