Quite often I hear these and similar remarks: "I'm not comfortable with him," "I seem susceptible to discordant situations that are occurring in my environment," "I'm not good at that," "I'm unable to overcome that erroneous tendency," "I seem subject to that ailment.
More than thirty-five centuries have elapsed since the Lord promised divine aid to Abraham and his descendants, and some twenty-six centuries since Isaiah's prophetic reminder of this to the children of Israel.