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“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (1 Samuel 7:12).
The word hitherto is an old English word that simply means “up until now.” If we know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and have walked with Him, we can all say that up until now the Lord has helped us. Perhaps we have had some hard times in our life, but as we saw with Job, we learn more from going through difficulties than we do when everything goes smoothly. We learn to rely on the Lord more, and we learn more of His love and grace.
In the chapter where today’s verse is found, the Israelites were in a tough spot, for the Philistines had come up against them, and they did not have the power in themselves to fight with them. But when they confessed their sin, the Lord came in and gave Israel the victory. Then the prophet Samuel could say, “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”
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